when was it first on ? <| sep |> This article is just more establishment apologist trash . There is no guesswork needed . There is no debate . Sanders absolutely would have crushed Trump . Without a doubt . The only unknown here is how severely he would have beat him . Clintons numbers never really moved throughout the race . And that ' s because everybody already knew everything about her that there was to know . The more people learned about Bernie , the higher his numbers went . Even maybe especially so after Clinton had her minions surrogates attack him with the whole s ocialistcommiepieinthesky , sexistracist stuff . They attacked , his numbers went up . Because the attacks were bogus and people knew it . The biggest thing that did Bernie in was the lack of media coverage early on . Not enough older people got to see him and know his positions which allowed Clinton and the media to form the narrative of Clintons inevitability .