The reality of Trump makes me even more glad it's going to Hillary for the Dems.
If Bernie had won the nomination, we'd be at serious risk. With his pacifism and trillions of dollars in tax raises, there's no way he pulls centrists and moderate Republicans from the GOP, but with Hillary, there are going to be a lot of Republicans that cross over because they are just as terrified of Trump as we are. I guarantee that her campaign is already making phone calls.
Also, the Trump campaign is going to be really ugly and nasty, and Hillary is used to this kind of thing, Bernie's never seen it before. He's a blank slate with a questionable and unexplored past (pro-Castro, USSR honeymoon, etc.) that Trump would be salivating about. And Trump wouldn't worry about whether he was being "fair" about the nuances of different kinds of socialism.
Bernie talks up his head-to-head numbers but those are meaningless because there have been zero negative ads run against him. He's done as well as he has in the primaries by playing to working class white resentment, but he can't beat Trump at that game.
The general election is a different game. The GOP candidates couldn't really hammer Trump for being racist because they needed the racist voters which make up a substantial portion of the GOP primary. And Hillary couldn't really go after Bernie on socialism because, even though it's anathema to the general electorate, she couldn't risk alienating the portion of the primary electorate that believes in it.
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