What Bernie can and will say to those tempted by Trump, and how to use the California primary.

Sanders should say to those tempted by Trump: Do you really want to support a candidate who believe your wages are too high today? Do you really want to support a candidate who pretends to support American workers against China while he counts the money he has made from sales of clothes made in China with his name on the label? Do you really want to support a candidate who claims he is anti-establishment while his campaign chief tells the Republican National Committee that his anti-establishment populism is a performance that will end the minute he has the nomination locked up?

Sanders can say to those tempted by Trump: One thing you can count on is that Bernie Sanders will never send his campaign chief to Wall Street or the political establishment and say he will suddenly change to another persona! Sanders can say that he has spent a lifetime fighting for workers in ways that Trump never dared to dream of. My advice to Sanders is to run in the California primary to make it a referendum on the progressive cause and the political future of the nation against the reactionary vision of GOP front-runner Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.

To Sanders supporters who have doubts about Clinton, I would say this: I have doubts about Clinton, but I do not have any doubt about the following. If Hillary Clinton is elected, the real-life politics of the matter is that she will be well aware, for her entire presidency, that it would be much better for her to enlist those who support Sanders to support her progressive causes and not to contemplate a primary against her reelection by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) or another progressive leader.

If Bernie Sanders declares the California primary a referendum on the future of a progressive America and a rejection of a Trump-led America, the result will be a banner victory for the future of progressivism and the future of America.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/277839-plan-b-for-bernie-sanders