Democratic strategizing for 2020 may be well on its way, but the knives and grievances of 2016 are still out for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. As the rumor mill ramps up with buzz that Sanders is back in the running for the Democratic presidential nomination, the intersectional cult and Clinton cronies have already began their full-scale assault on the self-proclaimed socialist’s primary prospects.

If you’re an economic leftist, the absolute best argument against Sanders is that the senator would be 83 by the end of his first term if he won the presidency. He would be a whopping nine years older at the start of the presidency than the oldest person ever to become president for the first time: President Trump, who was 70.

Outside of Sanders’ age, he has a frightening amount of potential. He singlehandedly mainstreamed leftist policy measures such as the $15 minimum wage and “Medicare-for-all” into American political discourse. Every socialist entering Congress has Sanders to thank for making that failed ideology seem attractive and even exciting, and for paving the progressive pathway through the Democratic Party.