people who go bler bler bler 74 YEAR OLD SOCIALIST are missing the point. Bernie's campaign was incredibly effective at getting out a solid message. He was a strong challenger that would've gained traction regardless of who he ran against.
Sure, but it's still not a good sign that in a year in which a very large (and growing) number of Americans absolutely despise the Beltway Establishment of both parties, it's worrying for the liberal/Democratic side that not only is the Democratic nominee in many ways the epitome of Beltway status quo politics (and is widely perceived as that, in addition to the many other things that - justifiably or not - contribute to a negative public perception of her) but also, that the anti-Establishment Republican nominee - as disgusting and deranged as he is - has a
frighteningly large and enthusiastic following. And while voter enthusiasm isn't the be all end all of elections, it certainly plays a significant role in elections. While Trump does have a lower ceiling than Clinton, the cold reality is that many liberal/left-leaning voters - particularly Millennials, who already have notoriously unreliable turnout rates - don't like Clinton of trust her; and if that's true of many voters on the Left, it's even more true of more "centrist" and center-right voters. And I'm not at all confident that most anti-Trump Republicans don't hate both Clintons, Obama, and basically anyone else associated with the Democratic Party more than they hate Trump (remember, most of these types despise Trump because they see him - correctly - as not being a Reaganite conservative, and thus, not "authentically" conservative).
I say all this, of course, as someone who desperately wants Clinton to annihilate that a**hole come November and to see his white supremacist supporters driven back into fringe irrelevancy where they belong.