With nothing left to lose and determined to make a major, lasting mark on the 2016 landscape, Sen. Bernie Sanders has finally rolled out the big guns against Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton.

The surprise offensive from the waning socialist has fanned the flames of civil war within the Democratic Party — and highlighted the very real reluctance on the part of many liberals to back the scandal-plagued Clinton.

Clinton remains caught between Sanders on one side and Trump on the other, with her scandal-tarred public image now being battered by both.

For much of the Democratic primary cycle Sanders has been silent on Clinton’s email controversy and allegations of quid pro quo surrounding the Clinton Foundation. In the first Democratic presidential debate, Sanders even helped provide Clinton cover by defending her against the email scandal criticism. “The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails,” shouted Sanders.

But now the gloves are off — and Sanders isn’t holding back.

In a candid moment during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sanders slammed Clinton and the donations received by the Clinton Foundation. “Yes, it is [a problem],” Sanders said. “You asked me about the Clinton Foundation. Do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects [sic] many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships? You don’t have a lot of civil liberties, [or] democratic rights in Saudi Arabia. You don’t have a lot of respect there for divergent, opposition points of view, for gay rights, for women’s rights. Yeah — do I have a problem with that? Yeah, I do,” Sanders said.

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Clinton has long defended the foundation and its acceptance of donations from foreign governments — but ethical questions and conflict of interest allegations remain. The foundation hauled in millions from Gulf nations, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman — states that have been accused of serious human rights abuses, especially against women.

The onslaught, launched at a time of maximum vulnerability for Clinton, has demonstrated why she has struggled to unify the Democratic Party. Many Democrats, like much of the rest of the electorate, are charged with an anti-Establishment zeal. Clinton’s corrupt “pay to play” practices could not embody more perfectly the type of Washington culture voters are keen to reject in 2016.

Sanders’ campaign strategy has revolved around painting Clinton as the ultimate political insider who has gamed the system and cooperated with Wall Street for her personal gain, but now he has added the scandals and her hypocritical record to his arsenal of attacks.

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Rather than go quietly at the behest of Democratic Party insiders, Sanders is ramping up his attacks in preparation for a contested convention. “At the end of the nominating contest, no candidate will have enough pledged delegates to call the campaign a victory,” Sanders said last week. “They will be dependent upon superdelegates. In other words, the Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention.”

The new line of attack has demonstrated the deep fracture in the Democratic Party, just as presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has unified the GOP at a faster clip than political observers expected.

Clinton remains caught between Sanders on one side and Trump on the other, with her scandal-tarred public image now being battered by both.