Sanders is what he is. People like him do not go gently into that dark night and they don't make a lot of "half friends." The pundits would have hated Tom Paine too. So divisive.
When democratic socialism is taken for granted as the basic operating condition of the US economy by both parties in 2050, Sanders will be considered a trailblazer. He will be revered once he is safely dead.
Right now he's ugly and mean and self-defeating, but he's making it possible for AOC to dance at her inauguration.
John Adams was a d-ck, too.
How does one become Unsafely dead???