But he’s right that a lot of Democrats still love Obama and by extension Biden. Bernie had to decide whether to continue to run aggressively against the Party establishment as he did in 2016. He tried to finesse it, and it didn’t turn out so well.
One problem is that Bernie has generally shied away from making electability arguments (in both 2016 and 2020). He really prefers to argue issues.
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He didn’t shy away this time. Once they saw the early polling results they turned most of the campaign into a Trump-focussed affair, and his main pitch was “I’m the best-positioned candidate to beat Donald Trump.”
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I’m not saying he really had any alternative. Trump changed everything. He panicked the Democrats, drove them into the center, turned Democratic policy into a single-minded obsession with defeating Trump and restoring decency, norms and the consensus liberal sense of order.
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Another problem is that his base is a minority of the party, there seems to be a ceiling on it / he lacks the skill to grow it, and he always loses when it comes to a two-person race.
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But there are more independent voters than either Democrats or Republicans. They supported him massively in 2016, but he went in a different direction in 2020.
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