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Best with what he got isn't the same as "good". I'm not trying to slander the man, I'm genuinely curious about how to measure this.It's still better than Hillary's 0 roll call amendments.
Sanders obviously occupied a fairly difficult position as an Independent, but did the best with what he got, in times when socialism was seen as a bad word.
In many ways he paved the way for modern progressives to be as successful as they have been, through decades of diligent work, in order to popularize that platform.
And it doesn't matter if he was more effective than HRC. Her criticism wasn't that she was better at it than him, her criticism was that he doesn't get things done because no one likes him. Which then turned into a conversation about if her comments were fair. Which, to me, turns on whether or not he actually gets things done. Not if he gets more done than HRC or if he's doing well given his circumstances.
"John has a lot of friends for an introverted asshole," is not the same as "John has a lot of friends."