Samantha Bee's Full Frontal has a double-edged love song for Bernie Sanders fans

Sam Bee has a tough-love song for Bernie Sanders fans — (Image credit: Full Frontal)

On Monday's Full Frontal, Samantha Bee sat down with a group of Bernie Sanders supporters at a Greenwich Village folk music club to try and understand their optimism and perhaps siphon off a little for herself. On Wednesday, after Sanders lost New York to Hillary Clinton by 15 percentage points, Full Frontal posted a video postscript to that panel session. It's a love song of sorts for the Sanders fans, with a distinct undercurrent of good-natured trolling, performed by comedian-musician Dave Hill.

Here's how it begins: "I admire your principles and idealism. I admire your total lack of realism. But seriously, who's it gonna be? Donald Trump or Hillary?" The Sanders focus group, befitting their unflappable happiness, appears to enjoy the song, but in many ways they get the last laugh. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.