[MrEdd]

You aren’t looking long range enough.
If the socialists can run their own ticket and actually come out ahead of the Democrat nominee then they can set the eventual collapse of the Democrat Party in motion and later step in to fill the power vacuum.

They wouldn’t have to beat Trump to have a huge victory in the long game.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Yes they could do that, but I am not convinced that long range planning is in their tool kit.