It still comes as a shock to most people that Bernie Sanders is still in the race. He started off seen as kind of a joke candidate — surely he wouldn’t win the nomination; after all, it was Hillary’s to claim, right? Add in the fact that he’s a cranky curmudgeon who is an open socialist, and it seemed that there was no way he could win. Yet here we are. And this is despite the fact that he has no real grasp on the actual issues. Following his disastrous interview with the New York Daily News, that was made even more clear. And at the New York Daily News, James Kirchick has had a revelation: Bernie Sanders is your stoner college roommate, all grown up and yet still railing against “the man”.