Given Russian interference in the last U.S. presidential election, and given that Bernie Sanders' campaign was a target of that meddling, one might imagine that Sanders would have spent the last two years leading the charge to prevent further election interference by Russia and/or any other foreign adversaries.
He is a sitting Senator, after all. He has the power to introduce legislation to support federal election integrity measures.
And he has way more visibility than the average senator to call attention to and generate interest in and rally support for such legislation.
He could leverage his media platform to call on state legislatures to enact important reforms to ensure free and fair and full-access elections.
But he hasn't.
I note that Sanders' campaign was not just a target of Russian interference in the previous presidential election, but also a beneficiary.
I hope it's merely gross incompetence that has seen Senator Sanders fail to lead the way to protect our future elections, and not being a fucking traitor.
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