Bernie Sanders Is Shrinking

After Election Day 2016, Bernie Sanders was arguably the front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. He had finished a respectable second place in the last primary, he had a strong network of small donors, and he seemed to be channeling the left-ish energy in ways that others weren’t.

Most of that hasn’t changed, but I think that Sanders is in a significantly worse position now than he was two years ago. He’s still arguably the front-runner (in fact, my boss made a strong case for that earlier this week), but I think Sanders has some big issues. And those issues (many of which also apply to other Democratic candidates) make me think that “the Field” is a much better bet than any individual candidate at this point.