she was working on new material, an entirely new album, following the release ofThank U, NextandSweetener Right now, the messaging from President Donald Trump is that, against the best advice of public health experts, the economy may be reopenedbecause millions of dollars of support for crucial aid effortsSanders is currently about300 delegates behind Joe Bidenwho is still nearly800 delegates away But another political thought has recently entered my mind. It is a Bernie Sanders presidency — not one that starts in 2021, but one that could have started in 2017. Without Bernie, we now face a bust, a potential break in our society so powerful and traumatic that our national future is uncertain in a rare, once-in-a-lifetime kind of way. So in the back of my brain, a tiny voice is mournfully asking, “What if Bernie were already president?”