Sanders' Imaginary Path to Victory

You'd think that by now the #FeelTheMath meme – the notion that independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters should come to terms with the fact that cold hard math has basically put the Democratic nomination out of his reach – had been done to death by now. But you'd be wrong. So let's do this again. Rolling Stone on Monday published an interview with Sanders about his quixotic battle to wrest the Democratic nomination from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The magazine's Tim Dickinson asked Sanders the most basic question at this point: What does the septuagenarian socialist's admittedly "narrow" path to victory look like? Sanders' three-part answer is instructive not only for illustrating exactly how vanishingly small his odds are but how deceptive his approach is and, ultimately, how intellectually dishonest he's being.