Despite the organizing of thousands of federal workers and a growing grassroots opposition to Donald Trump, the Democratic Party leadership refuses to offer any serious opposition to a billionaire coup.
Trump’s whole thing ran off of anti-establishment energy, without even being anti-establishment. Bernie was the real thing, and would have been drawing from the same energy.
Bernie’s candidacy, and occasionally when AOC speaks up loud enough to make the news, are the only times my right-tilted family and acquaintances have ever seemed impressed by anything of the left.
Yes, Bernie would’ve won. That’s why the Democratic Party blocked him.
I forgot which primary, but conservative democrats formed a coalition where everyone but Biden withdrew, forcing Bernie to split the vote with another progressive candidate .
That’s called Politics. They all want to win and they all make deals to help themselves at the expense of their opponents.
Bernie could’ve offered Pete and Klob the VP spot or whatever prestigious position they wanted to stay in the race and keep splitting the vote.
But the real issue is that Bernie never solved his problem from '16 which was that he is not popular with black people in the south. It killed him twice.
Outside of the DNC fuckery around Bernie’s 2016 run, he still didn’t win enough primaries.
Yes, be mad at the DNC for that, but Bernie wasn’t a shoo-in by any stretch - he literally didn’t win enough votes from Democrats in the primaries.
Trump’s whole thing ran off of anti-establishment energy, without even being anti-establishment. Bernie was the real thing, and would have been drawing from the same energy.
He’d have won.
Bernie’s candidacy, and occasionally when AOC speaks up loud enough to make the news, are the only times my right-tilted family and acquaintances have ever seemed impressed by anything of the left.
Yes, Bernie would’ve won. That’s why the Democratic Party blocked him.
I like to think so, but honestly I don’t know.
I forgot which primary, but conservative democrats formed a coalition where everyone but Biden withdrew, forcing Bernie to split the vote with another progressive candidate .
Wow it’s amazing these powerhouses of national politics pulled out just to screw Bernie over.
I mean Rick Ojeda, sure, he’s always hated Bernie, but Mike Gravel? You’d think he and Bernie would be friends!
That’s called Politics. They all want to win and they all make deals to help themselves at the expense of their opponents.
Bernie could’ve offered Pete and Klob the VP spot or whatever prestigious position they wanted to stay in the race and keep splitting the vote.
But the real issue is that Bernie never solved his problem from '16 which was that he is not popular with black people in the south. It killed him twice.