Bernie is best in only one thing: his economic plan is the most ridiculously unrealistic with the most wildly bullshit numbers of the campaign season.
I wasn't kidding. Bernie's fundamentals are very, very bad. Sorry to tell you this, but Trump is a better man, a far better leader with executive experience and the lame shit he has offered as a platform is, bad as it is, is better than Bernie's. Trump has Bernie solidly beat on at least 2-3 axes of core leadership measures.
And I know you're thinking of the support from high tech guys from Silicon Valley and their slick tools. I've seen how the Google page on Clinton's results fill with old hit pieces while Bernie's fill with fresh, new content. I realize how all these tech insiders are rigging the Internet to sabotage Bernie's opponents. That Facebook stuff was in the papers all week. But let's set aside all these gimmicks and crooked tricks you think you can win with. Before you weigh the benefit of the tricks and schemes, you have to look at the fundamentals. What kind of man is Bernie, on his merits, compared to Trump so far this election year?
Trump
Trump has loyal people who love him. He stuck with Cory Lewandowski all through that woman's attempt to bring him up on battery charges. Trump made himself look like a fool out there defending him and you could tell he knew it and was eating shit. But he did it anyways. The guy takes care of his people, even when it costs him.
Trump does not have shitnosed punks calling up old black ladies who are superdelegates and frightening them. He doesn't have monstrous, bullying assholes trying to riot a convention even though he was genuinely getting ripped off (and only only pretending to be getting treated unfairly). Trump doesn't have people calling GOP state officials and threatening their grandkids. Trump isn't targeting prominent women in the GOP for petty, mean destruction schemes.
And most of all, Trump has found a way, each time he tried, to reach a different leadership connection with a different worried or upset GOP leader. He's been building bridges.
Now compare Trump to Sanders.
Sanders
Do we really have to talk about how Sanders has no one to stick to, to stick his neck out for? He has no real friends in Congress, after 25 years. He's a solo practitioner. His colleagues don't want to endorse him; they don't even like to work with him. Even on the campaign trail, he's helped a couple, maybe 3 people campaign. Few people will endorse him and very few will campaign for/with him. In terms of being a good personal leader, he's bad. Really bad.
I've been saying all along that you have to, in part, judge a leader by the quality of his following. Look at the Bernie Bros. They've become a cliché for embarrassing, dreadful and abusive supporters. They're still doing their horrible thing, months after the nature of their character and behavior problems started getting attention. Not only does Bernie have supporters doing things Trump supporters haven't and would not, but he's not done anything to bring them under control or train them otherwise. He ripped out a letter making excuses and shifting blame to the Democrats for the animal and felonious behavior of his own supporters. They have been bullying and threatening women, for christ's sake.
And finally, how has Bernie bridged the gap between himself and his adoptive party? Has he done as well as Trump? No. He's a barn-burner and a bridge-burner and an earth-scorcher. If he doesn't get the wins and other things he wants, he initiates blistering, damaging attacks on anyone he can blame. The guy is a major, major hateful and power-abusive asshole. He's using threats, vilification and slander, and holding the Democratic primary hostage, to try to lash out against the Democratic party everytime he gets upset. Bernie's doing so unnecessarily. He's got an oppositional, aggressive and negative mindset toward the Democratic party and he can't stop punching and stabbing long enough to build bridges and lead.
Compare
Look at Trump's leadership qualities and look at Bernie's. One is a grown man with executive leadership qualities who has been taking and growing power and leadership in the GOP. The other seems to be alternating between raping and lashing out at the DNC.
So compare some of the fundamental qualities of the two men. Bernie isn't half the man Trump is, or even 1/4 of the man Trump is. He simply cannot beat Trump on the merits. And ideology alone is not enough to win this year. People want more, much more than that. Bernie is too defective a candidate for a general election.
The bottom line is that the merits of the candidate have to be better on some level. Bernie is bottom of the barrel in every possible way.