Let me be clear: I had ZERO faith in Sanders. To me, he's a career Washington insider, and his unwillingness to address the filibuster or the Supreme Court meant his only contribution to America as president would be moving the Overton window to the left. Instead it's going righthttps://twitter.com/aguyuno/status/1237736287253286913 …
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Because he was totally unwilling to contend with Republican obstructionism, M4A was never going to happen. The scaling back of human rights wasn't going to stop. But! I don't think anyone could beat Trump anyway! That wasn't Sanders' value! His value was in creating a movement!
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Because this is the thing. No matter the vote count, the only way Trump is ever going to leave the White House is frog-marching. And Biden? Biden's never gonna do that. He's part of the "they go low, we go high" gang that cost us SCOTUS and gave us Trump in the first place.
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But it's a moot point, because Biden won't win in the first place. Not the popular vote, not the electoral. Acting like the southern Black community is going to power the campaign entirely on its own enthusiasm is the most magical of magical thinking. Wake the fuck up.
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Turnout is increased across the board in the primaries this year, and by a lot The "Where's the turnout?" stuff from a while back turned out to just be because Iowa is a small caucus state
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The great mystery of this election is the fact that a lot of people seem to really like Joe Biden.
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Yeah I'm still trying to figure out what that means honestly, and why I and people like me judged that so wrong
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I'm told a big part of it is bluntly that older Black voters really like the man. Which may come back to the part where a lot of the policies young activists decry his part in were *popular* at the time with who are now older Black voters. Which is heresy.
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Yeah there's stuff here that's really hard to talk about, especially online, and yet clearly true Like the fact that "tough on crime" messages were extremely popular in Black communities in the 90s
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It's similarly just a fact that even today prison abolition is an *incredibly* unpopular platform, including in Black communities The people who support it are a very small and eclectic subset of the populace
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Yeahhh, and one of the obnoxious rhetorical norms/tricks of Online is to essentially manufacture legitimacy by claiming one's identity group monolithically supports a position as proof of its validity.
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Well, it's because when you're fighting tooth and nail online you end up falling into the trap of equating "unpopular" with "wrong"
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