I also didn't think I'd ever see a Jew get as close to the presidency as Bernie did. Even one of my fellow "Eh, let's just say I'm Jewish, because genetically I am, technically I am, and it's also the easiest way to explain what my whole thing is" types of Jew. Electing a woman would be a bigger milestone than electing a Jew, but there are huge swaths of this country that don't want to see Jewish people in prominent positions. Too many people on the far right think we're always scheming on something, while too many people on the far left think Israel is the modern equivalent of Nazi Germany.
I love Bernie, I love what he's done this year to progress progressivism—but I love progressivism more. (I'm sorry I just said that word so many times in a row... I also want to throw an apple at me.)
This isn't some new movement. It's not some out-of-left-field disruptor. Bernie and many of his ideas are the top floor of a tower that's been growing taller, in fits and starts, over the last 150 years. And yeah, he's reaching for the stars, but it's because he can from all the way up there. This year the party didn't happen on the roof, it happened in the ballroom again—but it's still our party. Sitting out the election, or even voting Republican, doesn't punish the DNC, it only punishes the most vulnerable people in our society: babies. No, I'm kidding, I mean the people whose basic human and healthcare rights Trump has already vowed to oppress.