Bernie Sanders did the impossible: He defeated the Clinton Machine. He also defeated the shadowy oligarchs behind that Machine. They just don’t know it.

Yes, by being propped up in every way imaginable by the media, the Obama Administration, her billionaire investors, the Democratic Party and her fellow corrupt politicians she “won” the primary. But when your campaign is a built on the sand of election fraud and voter suppression, a massive propaganda campaign, a legion of legislators willing to baldly lie for you, and assists from the entire executive branch including immunity to the law you are not entering the general election on a firm foundation.

Especially when over 50% of the nation despises you.

Therein lies the genius of Bernie Sanders. It doesn’t matter if he truly believes Clinton’s so-called “concessions” will survive her inevitable rightward, pro-corporate pivot the day after the Democratic Convention or not. It’s a role he must play to win the long game.

But what is that long game? He gave a preview last night in a leaked call to delegates where he spoke of building a 50-state progressive infrastructure composed of multiple organizations to carry on the “Political Revolution.” He is looking to winning back the governorships, state houses and both houses of Congress that were lost under Obama/Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ watch. This is where he wins.

Bernie is no fool. He knows Hillary is a liar who only answers to the rich and powerful. He knows the Democratic Party is full of opportunists and corporate whores. Our political process is the literal incarnation of the Augean Stables; shit-full of unbroken decades of neoliberalism.

Can this Herculean task succeed?

If Hillary is defeated its success will be all but assured.

If Hillary wins, the movements Bernie builds will be assailed from all sides, perhaps ultimately dispersed and destroyed as Obama did to Occupy Wall Street. Crony neoliberalism cannot abide social democracy.

But aren’t we supposed to fear the media creation of the Trump Monster? Hillary’s campaign is certainly based upon making Trump the reincarnation of Hitler. In real terms, we’ve seen for the last 8 years the legislative branch can hamstring the administrative branch. A progressive congress that Bernie wants to build can and will do the same to Trump, alongside Republicans still furious at the billionaire outsider.

A Hillary defeat in November means the Clintons have nothing to sell aside from their aging rolodex of the old guard. Their powerbase will crumble as their use to investors disappears. Hillary is too old and too sick to run again.

This leaves the Democratic Party open to a house cleaning by people-powered movements voting in people who see politics as a public service vocation, not a narcissist’s get-rich-quick scheme. Movements build by Bernie Sanders.

Feel free to vote fearlessly for the president of your choice be it Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, Trump, Vermin Supreme or even Cthulhu. Bernie’s got a plan.