A lot of Bernie supporters on my feed saying that he would have won handily in the general election, expressing their utmost resentment for the DNC primary and “The Media”(tm).

Speaking as a Bernie primary voter, you can miss me with that. I think he would have done worse.

You can talk about how polling showed that he would have done well in a head-to-head against Clinton and Trump, but 3 things:

• why did he lose so many open primaries against Clinton?
• Why were most of Bernie’s wins in the caucus states?
• Why did so many Bernie supporters resent that the New York primary was closed to registered Democrats, even though he lost so many open primaries?
• How would Bernie have performed in terms of Electoral Votes as compared to the popular vote?
• Why weren’t those Republicans who saw Bernie as the non-Hillary present in the open Democratic primaries in the Southern states like Georgia?
• How were open primaries rigged?

You cannot make Afro-American Democrats love Bernie any more than how we voted in the primary, especially not within a year.

In the end, Afro-Americans were not the deciding factor between Clinton and Trump, and the bet on the Latinx vote came up short. Trump won because he carried the Euro-American vote across all class divisions, and the Euro-American vote dominates the Electoral College, not the popular vote.

So much of Euro America made this decision, especially the Euro working class, out of a reflex for economic and political security of their position in the world and against constraints of decency, and their decision is reflected more in Trump’s share of the Electoral College than in his current share of the popular vote.

Bernie would not have filled that hole because he came too late and assumed wrongly that so many demographics would gravitate to him with immediacy. Hillary did her best to compensate for this hole, even in working an entire “ambitious” political life toward this goal, but came up short.

Trump is the president that Euro America deserves, and the political system is rigged in Euro America’s favor since the Electoral College was established in its current form in 1803. He’s a man of his time, and the Euro-American men and women who voted for him will own everything that this Republican presidency and Congress will enact and appoint over the next four years.

To imply that Bernie would satisfy this urge is disrespectful to the man himself. It is a projection of your fantasies onto someone who tried and failed to build a sustainable voter base. It is a projection of your fantasies upon voters who clearly sided in the GOP primary with Trump because they liked his gutter nationalism, that maybe those misinformed voters would have seen the light of Bernie in the general election if he had been the Democratic nominee.

No. Euro America did not deserve Bernie. Euro America did not deserve Hillary. Euro America did not deserve a continuance or progression of the best policies of Obama’s 8 years in office.

Euro America knows what Euro America wants. Let Euro America have it.