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No serious democrat wants to waste that chance against an incumbent with a booming economy.

The economy isn't booming. The fact that the stock market is up mostly helps the mega-rich. Same for the GDP. The corporate media (Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) uses these metrics to determine the health of the economy because they only care about the rich, since they're part of that circle.

Most new jobs pay very little, and are often part-time; almost half the country can't afford a $400 emergency, and far fewer than that can afford a $1,000 emergency; many people are struggling to pay their car payments; jobs continue to be outsourced, including ones that Trump bragged about saving; and half the country makes $30,000 a year or less. The economy isn't booming for the average person, and the only people who think it is have fallen for corporate media propaganda. And yes, many of these things were problems under Obama, who was a corporatist, though not as much as Trump is.

If the Democrats don't run Sanders, they are doomed. Trump's fake populism is much more likely to be defeated if you run a real populist like Bernie Sanders. Warren is more corporatist than Bernie, voted for military budget increases, is more cozy with the establishment, and occasionally repeats establishment talking points. She's okay, but she's no Bernie.