To me the difference is that his wins & the breathless projections of the forecasting models that had Biden dead gave Sanders a moment & leverage she never had. Party might have recoiled anyway - the revealing thing his instinct was not to try & instead to stress confrontationhttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1235659785174835200 …
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We said *exactly the same thing.* Right—Bernie needed to grasp that that was the one moment for him to be conciliatory. Strategy that undergirds tactics matter in a short term sense. Not all just endless struggle—that’s different track. If you can **win now.**
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Agreed that a message of reassurance, conciliation and unity (as recommended by
@mattyglesias) would have served Sanders better after Nevada. But not sure if it would have been enough -- could still have had moderate consolidation.2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes -
Sure—but he and team didn’t try. They didn’t get that they couldn’t win the nomination, let alone the presidency by doing a hostile takeover of the Party. Power matters—it’s just stupid not to try to win when you can. And proof of that is they are trying now—but w/out leverage.
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Right—all of that. This is where the contempt for the idea of the actually existing party, like it or not, has been disastrous. And it’s mostly rhetorical—yeah, he’s a regular Dem vote as a senator. But the rhetoric mattered more than ever.
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Right, and that helped him break thru and pull together a party faction. Really impressive. But doesn’t help to win.
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The street fighting skills you need to get as far as Bernie has are in tension with the diplomatic skills you need to seal the deal. But he has his own experience to draw on and some allies who are able to bridge (like AOC). Warren could help, if she wanted to.
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Maybe leave Warren alone for 1 day, speaking of diplomacy.
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