Lol Bernie hired a bunch of Johnnys ("I believe in the crushing populist wave") and Timmys ("I believe in sneaking in through a brokered convention") and meanwhile Biden had the Spike ("Just keep playing the Obama card, it's broken")https://twitter.com/perdricof/status/1250541876060590080 …
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The thing is for the average politically uninformed person the first two attitudes look like they're opposed to each other If you really are the voice of the people shouldn't you already have crushing majorities It's only inside the bubble they come together into one narrative
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And it's hard to get just how insane "The more it seems like people hate me, the more I'm really beloved, because the media establishment exists to crush true populism" sounds to anyone not already baptized into the conspiracy mindset
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But yeah for a certain class of people they were committed to the 30% Strategy because it was the only way to validate their own narrative "Trump proved that all Normal Regular Folk hate the Democratic Party so the ONLY WAY for a D to ever win again is to be hated by the Party"
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"Therefore squeaking through a D candidate who actually lost the D primary in a contested convention is not only acceptable, it's NECESSARY Anyone who wins a majority of Democrats is doomed because actual Democrats are scum hated by all Decent Normal Volk I mean Folk"
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I'm not comparing him to anyone but certain podcasters (who are making it very clear now they never supported Bernie as a person in the first place) constantly invite the comparison
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