Why true Bernie Sanders supporters can never, ever vote for Donald Trump

But how should they actually vote?

Supporters of Bernie Sanders are not likely to vote for Donald Trump.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)

Is a gigantic population of American anarchists going to swing the 2016 election to Donald Trump?!?

This is the premise of a rather vapid piece of clickbait published by The Daily Beast last week. The article put forward a Leninist argument for Bernie Sanders' supporters to back Trump. Hillary Clinton supporters were predictably enraged, Sanders supporters rolled their eyes, and clicks were indeed harvested.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.