Thread —#2 is the key point. Have to have leverage before you can make this move. People want to back winner, won’t move in that direction re an insurgent *unless they have to.* Making move is strategy, but the **timing of when to do it is the tactic.** Both EW/BS flubbed timing.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1235969877833166856 …
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Sure. But there’s no alternative but to try. Otherwise you’re relying on a split field to create conditions for a hostile takeover. That’s a recipe for defeat either at this stage or in the general election.
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There’s a guy on twitter now trying to urge liberal left pols by name to endorse Bernie. Inslee, Gillum, etc. See the problem? That’s Bernie’s job! That what a smart pol who wants to build a *majority* does. Maybe everybody would blow him off, but he had to try. Dumb politics.
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Seems to me that after the election the left needs to do serious work to establish a viable national third party. The Democratic party has become hostile to progressives.
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That's what allows Likud to win.
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The party elite hated Bernie so much they helped him become senator; Sen. Schumer made him Senate Democrats Outreach Chair; and the allowed Bernie's representatives to be part of the DNC Unity Commission.
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The party elite hated sanders so much they gave him a spot in the Senate Leadership.
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Sanders railed against the party elite to gin up his base.
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Who are you talking about, the curly-haired guys with big noses who work on Wall Street, and have names like Goldman or Blankfein or, oh, say, just for argument's sake, Schwartz?
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Biden: 4,902,899 Sanders: 4,005,205 How many votes do the elite get?
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You say this as if the far left is even capable of a conciliatory approach. They are not.
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