What it *feels* like the Extremely Online pro-Sanders pundits believed was Sanders had all the normal working-class voters on his side, the college-educated "PMC" obnoxious woke liberals they hated were all split among the others, and once they made them bend the knee it was set
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Hence all this ire aimed specifically at Warren, who came to be the scapegoat for keeping the "educated progressive wing" from coalescing around Bernie, which was all they thought they needed
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The Super Tuesday results kind of make it seem this was a strategic disaster Bernie *already had* a big chunk of the college political wonk crowd, and probably hit his ceiling with them a while ago But that crowd isn't important, such is why Warren ended up not being important
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I think people resist the "the college educated wonk crowd aren't important" because if so, it basically means political science and theory isn't important and we just don't give a shit about academic or intellectual qualifications. It would be the death knell for democracy.
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It would be basically an entire demographic accepting that they do not matter, that they will never matter, and they may as well just despair and flock to populist candidates. Nobody can really tolerate that idea.
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Nobody's *completely* unimportant, they're just obviously not the majority
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But you understand what I am saying. It is extremely dangerous and demoralizing to internalize the idea that no, voters just don't care about policy or intellectual framework of academic qualification or "merit" and just want some asshole they can have a beer with.
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I think voters care a lot about policy - it's part of why Bernie faced resistance. But I think to Warren's frustration, they don't care much about the detail of policy proposals, and to some extent, they're right to.
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Because look - I'm very interested in policy, and I spent a year donating to Warren. I've barely read any of her famous plans. I trust her, so I don't read them.
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But also the granular detail isn't really important, because it's not how bills become law anyway.
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Well yeah I think it's worth reminding people Obama had a website with a huge list of various proposals for various things that almost all evaporated shortly into his first year
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