I do think, though, that the worst thing Bernie ever did was call himself a democratic socialist. Not because democratic socialism is bad, but all the yayhoos out here in flyover country would hear "socialist" and equate it with "communist" and believe the right wing propaganda machine when they'd claim that he was going to take all their freedom & what little wealth they had away. No use trying to explain to a bunch of people who would go on to vote for Trump what democratic socialism actually is and how it's not equal to communism.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
