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tbh, I'm not sure Bernie wins in 2020 if he wins in 2016. I doubt Trump runs in 2020 at least. But I feel like McConnell just refuses to let Bernie do anything. Then he probably gets the brunt of the blame for Covid, which is probably nowhere NEAR as bad as it was. But he still gets the blame. And we'd have two vacant Supreme Court seats.

Then again in a world where Bernie wins in 2016, it's probably a different political landscape altogether. Progressives make gains in the senate and the house as demands for Medicare for All from the President drives turnout. We get medicare for all in 2018. Marijuana is descheduled in early 2017. Minimum Wage is raised. Nobody knows what a Kirsten Sinema is. The rich grin and bear the new taxes because their workers are strangely more productive now that they don't have to worry about their healthcare or rent or things like that. They don't credit him with it, of course. Most people listen to the President on covid, and we don't get a lot of anti-vax nonsense except from kooks like RFKJR. We get way more stimuluses, which pushes forward the idea of UBI which Bernie makes as the cornerstone of his 2020 campaign, and implements it in 2021 after winning.