She's stated publicly that it's because she doesn't believe in getting involved in primary endorsements. Personally, I think she's nuts for it and she's pissing off a lot of people, but she seems to be sticking by that principle. Although, she's certainly gone out of her way to tell voters that they should be very concerned with past voting records and who has a long term, undeniable progressive values, so it's not exactly like it's a hidden secret who she voted for, either.
I don't disagree, that's why she's pissed off a lot of Sanders supporters. Ironically, I would say the only person who's image got worse over the 2016 primary cycle was Warren's.
Naders movement likely would have scattered to the wind no matter what, as their was a number of issues regarding the demographics of that movement. The likelihood, due to demographics alone, that Sanders supporters will just disappear is very small. That's something that should concern Hillary, although it pretty manifestly isn't. This is totally needless. Hillary could just accept to fight alongside Bernie on a few specific common issues to the left of her current positions and remove the teeth from all arguments against voting for her. Instead, she's hellbent on moving towards the "center" (which is now just Right of most of the country) and continuing to pump her mudslinging machines to continue to slander Sanders supporters. There's really no other way to describe this than monumentally idiotic, but it's what Hillary Clinton has decided on. Now Trump is declaring that the Democratic party has been unfair to Sanders and that he should run as an independent --all of which is insincere bull**** designed to pull in left-wing independents who're furious with Clinton. But in a certain percentage of cases, it may work.
It really is amazing how out of touch Hillary is and how in touch with average America Trump is. The man is racist, misogynistic scumbag, but he at least understands who to effectively lie to his own base and tap into what's driving them to vote. If he can cut the misogynistic crap out, he'll actually stand a decent chance of beating Hillary. Again, this should terrify Clinton supporters, but they just keep on tripling down on the idea that yelling at Sanders supporters to toe the line is going to work, insisting that neoliberalism is the future of the Democratic party and so they shouldn't be expected to compromise on these issues, and that the movement will die as soon as Sanders loses the nomination... It's completely delusional. That's not a way to unify the party (if that is Hillary's intention, which I now sincerely doubt), it's a way to give Trump level-odds (despite his severe demographic disadvantage) by alienating nearly half of her base and nearly tossing out a substantial portion of the independents she will definitely needs to win.
