When it became clear the framing of the election was becoming Bernie vs Everyone Else what that told me was that Bernie's base is more about Bernie than left policy Which I guess the "It's Bernie, bitch!" op-ed writers also think, but they think it's a good thing
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I mean, the thing is, if it were actually true that "Americans want Bernie and Liz's policies and they just trust Bernie more to deliver them" then HE WOULD BE WINNING It would mean that every point Warren dropped would've been a point he picked up and he'd have the majority now
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The fact that Warren's collapse didn't empower Sanders, whose numbers stayed stubbornly stable, so much as helping Buttigieg and Klobuchar on the way to helping Biden, tells me it was really about perception of competence and character not policy in the first place
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Replying to @Fox_Galewarden @arthur_affect
If anything, it confirms to me that it was about policy all along. Some more liberal centrists saw Warren as an ideal amount of progress, and Sanders as too extreme, so when Warren faltered, they went with the other candidates who had similar policies.
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Okay So you agree with the part of my point which is that Sanders' policies aren't actually very popular
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I agree that they're not very popular with the centrist democrats who are showing up and being counted in the primaries and caucuses. But there's been numerous suspicious irregularities and cases of blatant voter suppression, and polls consistently show massive support.
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Polls about support for one sentence summaries of policies mean very little
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I'm tired I'm sure if you think about it it'll come to you
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Hey, look, if I were in one of those polls I would answer that poll that I'm "strongly in favor" of universal healthcare, but I'm only "somewhat in favor" of Bernie Sanders Apply whatever flawed cowardly centrist logic by which that's true of me to the population in general
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You also keep supporting the objectively false idea that Bernie supporters are worse than any other politician's supporters, and hold him responsible for his bad apples while you refuse to hold other politicians responsible for theirs. Respectability politics is a hell of a drug.
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