It's true I love Bernie but we need a Reagan to his Goldwater. The ideal 2020 would be a younger, charismatic, govenor (preferably) well like inside the party who can push Bernie's ideas. The problem is their is literally no one in the possible 2020 field like that. The closest is Warren and she really isn't that much younger then Bernie nor more charismatic then him.
The main problem is that it's not enough to just run on the same policies. You couldn't give Bernie's platform to say, Andrew Cuomo, and have it have the same wide-ranging popularity. Sanders' popularity mostly stems from his authenticity: He doesn't wait until it's politically convenient to hop on good ideas, he doesn't need to receive thousands of calls from angry constituency to be on the right side of an issue.
Jeremy Corbyn, UK's current Labor leader, has a similar popularity. I (and other leftists I know and on Twitter) have poured over his political history looking for SOME reason to dislike him, and I couldn't. His moral compass always points in the right direction.
There are very few, if any, such characters in mainstream politics who could take up the Sanders mantle and not make it seem like an obvious pander.
