I’ve seen the arguments but I don’t think Bernie wins a national campaign, especially as you noted in a media environment where most legacy media outlets are owned by a few billionaires each of whom have a material interest in seeing him lose. The forces that would align against him are simply too great, and the American voter is simply too incapable of voting in their own best interests.

In a more abstract sense, I just don’t believe that the same American voters that can elect a hateful asshole like Trump could also elect Bernie. They would be better off if they did. But they never could.