82 percent of his primary voters *who voted* cast their votes for her.
Which means 18% cast their votes for Trump or Stein (and that was enough to matter), but a lot did not vote at all, particularly among younger voters. Turnout was significantly lower for Hillary in states like MI and WI than it was for Obama four years earlier and that drop-off was the most pronounced in demographics that favored Bernie. I don't think he made them not vote, and he certainly did try to get his supporters to vote for Hillary but fact is a lot didn't.
I agree with your larger point. There were more 2008 Hillary voters (mostly the racist ones) who voted for McCain than 2016 Bernie voters who voted for Trump, and there were also Jeb/Marco/Kasich voters who voted for Hillary as the lesser of two evils (that was actually expected because Hillary was a better candidate for moderate conservatives than Trump).
My only point was that this time it mattered due to the margins, and may even have been outcome determinative. I don't see how you even argue that is not the case. Saying Bernie isn't an asshole for trying to win and acknowledging that he did try to help (after taking the primaries all the way into the summer and feeding the "I was robbed" narrative, etc., mind you, but he did) is all well and good. But enough of his supporters either didn't vote or voted for someone else that she lost. Sorry, but that's a fact.
Also a fact: she was a shitty candidate who ran a shitty, arrogant, "it's my turn, deal with it" campaign. and that is the real reason a slim margin of Sanders defectors was able to cost her the election.
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