Several Democrats in Florida were publicly panicking over Sanders' comments on Cuba just earlier though, including people like Andrew Gillum and it doesn't sit well with me.
Well, I mean I hate to be that guy, but they were comments that put a lot of folks in the Florida Democratic party in a bad position. Part of being the nominee is not putting your down ballot folks in a bad position where they have to chose between supporting whatever silly thing the nominee said or saving their own asses. If you get branded with the "Loves Castro" brush in parts of Florida, you're boned. That's just the reality of the electorate.
Furthermore, Bernie is not entitled to blind loyalty, even if he is the nominee. Like, if I am a Congress person and Bernie says something that can hurt me, I'm saving my own ass. Sorry not sorry. And, hell I don't know....I'm usually willing to defer to people who have run and won elections in a state to determine if something is problematic or not. That's just me though.
Also, and while this isn't necessarily your point, I'm already getting fed up to here with the idea that "coming together" means Bernie gets everything he wants, and everyone else just has to like it or lump it. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Part of coming together is both sides giving and taking a little bit. That's how it worked in 2008.That's how it worked in 2016. That's how it's gotta work in 2020.
So if you want to vote for better education/healthcare/minority rights/foreign policy for all people then it would seem to me that there's only one choice.
Well thank god it's only one person running who wants any of those things.