This is Bernie Sanders

Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution

There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. 

At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.

It was the Vermont senator who personally rewrote his campaign manager’s shorter statement after the chaos at the Nevada state party convention and blamed the political establishment for inciting the violence.

He was the one who made the choice to go after Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz after his wife read him a transcript of her blasting him on television.

He chose the knife fight over calling Clinton unqualified, which aides blame for pulling the bottom out of any hopes they had of winning in New York and their last real chance of turning a losing primary run around.

And when Jimmy Kimmel’s producers asked Sanders’ campaign for a question to ask Donald Trump, Sanders himself wrote the one challenging the Republican nominee to a debate.

There are many divisions within the Sanders campaign—between the dead-enders and the work-it-out crowds, between the younger aides who think he got off message while the consultants got rich and obsessed with Beltway-style superdelegate math, and between the more experienced staffers who think the kids got way too high on their sense of the difference between a movement and an actual campaign.

But more than any of them, Sanders is himself filled with resentment, on edge, feeling like he gets no respect -- all while holding on in his head to the enticing but remote chance that Clinton may be indicted before the convention.

Wow.

There's a lot more, and all of it bad.

He sounds a lot worse now than Nixon on his worst days.

I regret that if she is indicted before the convention it would likely be politically fatal for the convention to nominate Joe Biden, or indeed anyone at all but Bernie.

The man is awful.

Just awful.

Not a chance in hell Hillary will offer him a place on the ticket.

And I personally hope he loses his senate seat.