It was never a revolution. Sanders’ platform was always incremental change — good incremental change, important incremental change, beneficial for the general populace, but NOT a revolution.

If you compare the before-and-after,

• The American revolution was a revolution.
• The French revolution was a revolution.
• The Russian revolution was a revolution.
• Mao’s revolution was a revolution.
• The Cuban revolution was a revolution.

Bernie’s proposed reforms don’t come close to this level of change. I’m not saying they should. Many of the revolutions above fizzled out and the countries moved back toward the center. I’m very comfortable with the kinds of change that Sanders and Warren advocated. But calling his platform a revolution is misleading at best. It’s not surprising that he couldn’t muster enough support from his followers in order to effect quick, large-scale reform. Sanders was simply a very persuasive theoretician who chose an ineffective metaphor. He was not a revolutionary. No one was going to storm the barricades for the sake of free college tuition.