An even older candidate would have absolutely lost in 24. He may have won in 16, but more likely he loses but gets a bigger share of the popular vote than Hilary did.
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Yet, he literally, didn't win....
or any more true.
Yet, he literally, didn't win....
This is absolutely untrue.
Dems should have just used more charts that show how actually you're not paying more for groceries and making less money adjusted for inflation.
They also should have just had Kamala drop out and replaced her with Liz Cheney, that would have gotten the moderate vote.
They also should have shamed the people who don't like funding wholesale slaughter around the world more, these are jobs we're talking about here!
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I am skeptical if the guy who was a meme about how nobody cares about politics on c-span AND who has historically refused to condemn the horrific "communist" regimes would do well against an opponent who does nothing but throw schoolyard insults. Calling Biden "a communist" makes most of the moderates laugh. Calling Bernie "a communist" leads to him basically saying what only the far (American) left wants to hear and terrifying the hell out of the center.
But also? This makes no fucking sense and just makes "leftists" look like assholes.
- Because Hilary was not as left leaning as Sanders you... refused to vote and gave the right wing moron the win?
- Because Biden was not as left leaning as Sanders... he won? Or are we now saying that Genocide Joe is a straight up marxist?
- Because Kamala was not as left leaning as Sanders you... refused to vote and gave the openly fascist hatemonger the win?
I do think the Dems screwed up the "primary". But also? There was no time. Conventional wisdom is that you don't run against your own incumbent and the extent of Biden's infirmity was not apparent until way too late. We were never going to have nation wide votes and it was always going to be "super delegates". But maybe a more public "debate" rather than all the major players just saying "Yeah, Kamala is awesome" within a few hours of her announcing would have done more for the "base" who... still decided not to vote?
Just to reply to myself on the primary thing:
Part of me does wonder if we wouldn't be better with a standing policy to ALWAYS primary the POTUS. Done well, we have a way, as the people, to influence the platform and make our candidate much stronger.
Then I remember that we are STILL litigating 2016 because some people are pissy that the person they wanted didn't get the votes (obviously only because of people understanding the existence of superdelegates, I guess?) and all the damage that was done to Hilary because Sanders didn't concede when he should have and use his political capital to get concessions (as he seemed to have done with Biden in 2020).
Bernie ain't winning shit beyond his seat right now
My heart belongs to Bernie.
The left really should actually organize and form a secret party of political actors who run as republicans to disrupt the vote.
They would last MAYBE one term before they were instantly primaried and removed from power.
The reason manchin and sinema are so destructive is that they were from INCREDIBLY purple states. Going up against them would just split the vote and guarantee the republican candidate one. fetterman is more of a special case and time will tell on him.
The other? To get elected as a magat you need to be a pretty hateful son of a bitch. And people are already turning on AOC for removing her pronouns from her social media bio.
Because... just look at the Bernie Bros. Democrats are INCREDIBLY good at purity testing each other. So someone who pretended they wanted to enslave women and then voted for progressive legislature? They would be forever tainted and vilified... and kind of rightfully so.
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