> How many people got a chance to vote for Bernie Sanders in 2020? It doesn't matter. A large percentage of Democrats describe themselves as conservative. Many

> How many people got a chance to vote for Bernie Sanders in 2020? It doesn't matter. A large percentage of Democrats describe themselves as conservative. Many of those people are minorities. Sanders' popularity was an illusion due to the bizarre ordering of Democratic primary states. The voters in the early states are much whiter, more educated, and politically active than most of the later states. That means a candidate like Sanders (who is disproportionately popular with white, educated people) looked a lot more viable than he was. I'm not saying I think Sanders would have lost to Trump. I think Sanders was actually more viable as a general election candidate than as a Democratic primary candidate for various reasons (one of them being that a small-but-significant group of anti-establishment voters were willing to vote for Trump or Sanders, but no one else).