2. Traditionally, if a candidate is seen as too extreme or unfit (Goldwater, McGovern) part of the coalition of their own party sits out the election or votes for opponents. But current polarization has changed that logic, as 2016 itself showed.
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3. By any reasonable measure, Trump was in 2016 an unelectable candidate: no experience, hated by party elite, early signs of mental decline, history of bankruptcy, many offensive statements, many sexual assault allegations, "grab 'em by the pussy" etc?
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4. So how did "unelectable" Trump win an electoral college victory? Because of polarization. "Never Trump" Republicans were pitifully few in numbers (although they all ended up with newspaper columns) & most GOP thought "Hillary is the Devil & Trump will give us courts."
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5. So the question about electability really falls on the Democratic electorate: are they willing to support a candidate from a different wing of the party in order to defeat Trump. Or to be more specific, will
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6. The so-called electability problem is really a party unity problem. More thoughts on this here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-unity-sanders-warren/ …
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He's already lost the New York Times Primary, its over
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(nods) Especially given that President Trump lost the Republican Primary to Senator Klobuchar...
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I think they all have this backwards. He's definitely electable. How he'll govern as he ages into his 80s is more problematic. Nominating either Bernie or Biden presents a bigger problem in 2024 for reelection.
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