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People in America don't recognize the house is on fire until it's in ashes. Citizen's United was an absolutely debilitating decision, and politicians on both sides of the aisle didn't care because they are happy working for the oligarchs as long as they get a taste of the riches and the power. The media turned a blind eye because they're in the same pockets.
Yes he failed to build a sustained movement of what was essentially centrist politics a century ago, but he failed mostly because the cultural, media, and political apparatus is full of people that either trash binned his message entirely or painted him as some kind of alarmist, or extremist.
I'm not talking about Bernie not succeeding in his campaigns, I'm talking about how he seemingly hasn't put any effort into grooming a successor for his very own seat in his very own state. That's not a media problem.
Elizabeth Warren is younger, but if she keeled over tomorrow there are multiple good politicians she's groomed to rise up in Massachusetts. If Bernie dies (or just retires) we're probably going to get some well funded neoliberal like the other poster said.
It is partially a media problem though. It's not the job of a politician to put a succession plan in place for their little fiefdom. It should've been enough to inspire others through his leadership, but he is painted as anything but inspiring by nearly every observer with an audience.
And honestly Warren irritates the shit out of me after 2020. It's great that she'll be able to hand over the reigns of an eminently winnable seat in Massachusetts to her favorite mini-me, but when she had an opportunity to actually advance the cause on the national stage she took to back-biting and opportunism instead.
Sure thing, wish for this perfect future where good politicians just spring up organically rather than expect a politician here and now in reality to have any sort of successful plan.
And give me a break with this 'blame Warren' crap. When she was leading and Bernie had just had a heart attack, he stayed in rather than bowing out to build momentum. Two egotistical politicians both thought they had the right (or responsibility) to stay in a race to represent their ideas and politics. Warren's voters definitely 100% would not have made Bernie win, and in all likelihood a Warren polling at 50% still wouldn't have caused a runway as all the others suddenly decided the economics of M4A was the most important issue for Democrats to spend the entire primary on.
Except now one of these egotistical politicians is preparing people to take over and the other doesn't seem to have any plan for what happens after he retires or (more likely) dies in office.