re: Bernie Sanders questions whether we are a democracy

We are not a democracy, we are a republic

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Bernie reaches a lot of the same conclusions MAGA does, but the roads to get there are very different. He is actually an ideological ally in a really weird, tangential sense.

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I would argue that he's something of an asset, not an ally. Not arguing your point. Just thinking of a different word.
Yes he and his people. DO cause a lot of problems in the DNC. Especially with him being an Independent.
He's useful to us, in that regard.
But, the fact that he's an open Socislist commie, he's still a very large threat.

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So Bernie wasn’t “forced” out in 2016? That was a fair primary with no external forces?

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In 2016 he lost the New York primary to Hillary and that was it

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How does this simple math work for "the other" candidate to get more than 50% of the vote if they were not able to get a higher percentage than Bernie when more candidates are available. Are you just blindly assuming every other voter would vote for the 2nd choice, and no one would consider Bernie?

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The “other” candidate ended up being Biden, but in early 2020 primaries, his vote was split between him, Warren, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, etc. With Bernie being so different from establishment Democrats, it was presented as him vs the field. The first three primaries were in Iowa, New Hampshire, and I think Nevada, a list of mostly white and small states that Democrats want to move to different spots in the primary order. Best believe they used the communist attack on him. The knock on Bernie was that he didn’t poll well with blacks and thus couldn’t drive their turnout enough to win vs Trump. That’s why Obama and Clyburn made the call to get behind Biden and Democrats fell in line. Biden ended up winning big in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday

Coincidentally or not, this was when COVID caught on and the world started shutting down.