Bernie Sanders is running for president again

This thread is for discussing this development.

My own view is that Sanders played a key role in 2015-16 in pushing the Democratic party as a whole leftward, and that the importance of that role should be acknowledged. That said, given the current state of the nation, it’s difficult to make a compelling case that the party’s candidate in next year’s election should be a 79-year-old white man from the least ethnically diverse state in the nation, who regularly exhibits the sort of tone deafness toward racial matters that isn’t exactly shocking from someone with his background.