If you want Sanders people to back the ticket, you can’t keep treating that campaign as if none of its victories count and nothing it did merits any respect.

And you can’t keep defending the scorched-earth efforts the party establishment ran to crush it after Super Tuesday.

I hope “Joe” is humbled enough by the present situation to recognize that incremental centrist policies will not do-that, while he can’t BE Bernie -BTW, Bernie was never going to be able to be Bernie all by himself as president, and his campaign was always predicated on the idea that there would have to be heavy campaigning for downballot progressives and then continuous mobilization after the election, and it’s silly to act as though he ever claimed he could change the country all by himself-he can, even if he uses different words, grant the basic validity of the points Bernie’s campaign made about the toxicity of corporate dominance in politics and especially the betrayals and corruption caused to the Democratic Party by its decision to abandon working-class people of all races in the name of gaining corporate donations.

Also, in no universe could Joe Biden ever be even remotely compared to Bobby Kennedy. Bobby abandoned the snobbish, right-wing Cold War rigidities he was raised in and campaigned as a champion of the powerless and the dispossessed, of those with no hope and no voice, for peace and against arrogance and overreach in U.S. foreign policy. Joe Biden-who I will vote for(I live in a safely “blue state”, so my vote there really doesn’t matter, but whatever) is incapable of ever becoming a person like that, so your analogy about 1968 is totally inappropriate, and it’s close to obscene that you would at any level seemingly imply that the justified anger a lot of progressives felt at the scorched-earth tactics the party establishment, and its media ally MSNBC used to crush Bernie after Nevada are in any way comparable to NOT regarding the assassination of Bobby Kennedy as a tragedy.

No Sanders supporter would expect Biden to back everything Bernie was backing. But here are things I think would make a massive difference in bringing them around

1. Support for general student loan forgiveness;
2. A pledge to make a significant cut in the war budget, get U.S. troops out of the Arab/Muslim world-every war they are fighting in there is pointless and unwinnable-and use the savings from the above for major programs for housing.
3. Appointment of FCC commissioners who will restore the Fairness Doctrine and Net Neutrality-neither of which would be a high cost measure and both of which would make a huge difference to a lot of people.
4. reduction of the Medicare enrollment age to 26-the age at which young people can no longer stay on their parents ACA policies-OR an extension of the age they can stay on the ACA policies until 40.
5. Support for adding FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution, and support for measures to at least reform the Electoral College.