Former President Obama is interjecting himself into the 2020 presidential campaign, but his target, at least for now, is not on President Donald Trump.

Much like in the 2016 presidential election, the former president, and it appears the Democrat Party itself, has its target set on Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The socialist candidate identifies as an Independent, although he caucuses with the Democrats, and that does not work for the establishment.

Obama, and others in the party, see the Vermont senator as an outside and someone who cannot defeat President Trump.

The former president has kept quiet during the Democrat primary, even refusing to endorse his former Vice President Joe Biden.

But now, sources have told Fox Business Network, that the 44th president may break his silence to derail the Sanders train.

The sources said that Obama sees Sanders as temperamentally unfit and incapable of defeating President Trump in the general election.

It brings to mind words that the former president had in November when he warned against the extremes of the party like Sen. Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

“Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision we also have to be rooted in reality,” he said. “The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.”

But word is he has softened on Sen. Warren in recent months and is prepared to endorse her if she wins the Democrat primary.

He has pledged to back whoever wins the primary, but he wants to do whatever he can to make certain that the winner is not Sanders.

“Obama has told people in private that Sanders is both temperamentally and politically unfit to beat Trump in the 2020 general election, these people say,” Fox Business reported.

“Among his concerns are Sanders’ strident form of politics and confrontational manners where he was known not to seek compromise during his long years in the US senate,” it said.

“Meanwhile, Obama is said to worry that Sanders’ far-left policies, which include massive tax increases, free college tuition and massive student debt forgiveness, would alienate even traditional Democratic voters. And may alienate them enough to re-elect Trump, who is seeking a second term despite historically low favorability ratings given his own bombastic style,” it said.

Some of the sources think that, if Sanders gains more in the polls, the former president could break his silence and work against him.

And that would make the primary season even more insane than it has been.