What's incredible is the current Deja vu to 2016--at this point then, the SAME Democrats/media figures were pounding their chests on @HillaryClinton's stronger "electability" compared to @BernieSanders being 2 "radical"....despite his clearly stronger grassroots support...
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both on-the-ground and in fundraising (fundraising even STRONGER now). There was also the fact that Sanders had equal to BETTER head-to-head polling against Trump (same now). And there was the same fact-free argument that centrism/moderates play better in the Midwest...which has
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no data or facts to back it up considering Bernie won MI/WI primary and essentially tied in Iowa Caucus. Not to mention....TRUMP RAN IN THE MIDWEST PROPOSING LEFTIST PROPOSALS...NOT MODERATE/CENTRISM (repealing NAFTA, universal healthcare, ending the wars).
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the truth of why this "electability" myth keeps getting perpetuated is because
@cnn@msnbc rarely have strong progressives on and rarely even have@BernieSanders surrogates or campaign people on...they have the same Clinton-lovers and former staffers on to keep pushing fact-free1 reply 8 retweets 58 likesShow this thread -
electability nonsense. As someone who covered Trump/Bernie/Hillary in 2016 in MI, WI, PA, OH I can tell you....these are not folks dying for the centrism of Amy Klobuchar. If they were, we would have a President
@HillaryClinton or former President John Kerry. The propaganda1 reply 14 retweets 70 likesShow this thread
must end!
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