Progressives Must Do All They Can to Make Certain Donald Trump Is Defeated

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page

04 November 16

ike most of you, I can’t wait for this despicable election to be over. And like many of you, I miss Bernie Sanders. I will vote for Hillary, but I miss Bernie’s passion and powerful sense of mission. “There is a lot of sentiment that enough is enough, that we need fundamental changes, that the establishment — whether it is the economic establishment, the political establishment or the media establishment — is failing the American people,” Bernie said, and then outlined what must be done.

I also miss Bernie's passionate civility, as when he went to Liberty University and proclaimed to a large conservative audience, “I believe in a woman’s rights, and the right of a woman to control her own body. I believe in gay rights and gay marriage. Those are my views, and it is no secret. But I came here today, because I believe from the bottom of my heart that it is vitally important for those of us who hold different views to be able to engage in a civil discourse.”

After the Democratic primaries, Bernie said, “the major political task that together we face in the next five months is to make certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly.” He was right again.

Bernie’s campaign was never about Bernie. It was a movement to make our democracy and our economy work for the many, not the few, and to bring to America a deepened sense of interdependence and tolerance. Both may seem quixotic right now. But despite what happens Tuesday, that movement will live on.

What do you think?