I think a lot about how the inevitability of former vice presidents winning presidential primaries, combined with the incompetence with which both pre-VP Biden and Harris ran in primaries before being selected, effectively indicates presidential primaries are non-democratic
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I say this as someone who has basically no affection for Biden If you took the names off the candidates and just looked at what the actions are, the stuff you'd have to do as the DNC to keep Bernie viable longer feels a lot more like manipulation than what they did do
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I.e. telling the other candidates who were obviously no-hopers (Mayor Pete and Klobuchar) to stay in and protect Bernie from elimination and try to pipeline people away from Biden toward Bernie over the next few races
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which is unfortunate, imo, because I don't like him! but the electorate often chooses people I don't like.
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One of the turnoffs from the Bernie "style" of campaigning for me was this very reductive appeal to populism Believing that because my politics are the correct politics they must be the politics the real majority of Americans hold, and any appearance otherwise is false
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