Hindsight tells me that perhaps Bernie should have run as an Independent. I think he could possibly have won everything come November. The fact that the Democratic Party worked so hard to defeat him tells me that, going forward, third party candidates just should not trust the Democratic Party. Reason tells me that even if he won, he would not have had enough strength in Congress to get stuff done.
And those "Russian" emails tell me Bernie made the right decision to say he will be returning to Congress as an Independent. 
Hugh Massengill, Eugene