Bernie Sanders has a national political infrastructure, locked-in support from significant portions of the electorate, and an alternative media ecosystem that is intensely devoted to him. The fact that his 2020 chances are being so heavily downplayed is borderline delusional
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He's even done things to address relatively marginal weaknesses, like on foreign policy (successfully ushering though the truly groundbreaking Yemen resolution). He extracted a concession directly from Jeff Bezos! Name another national politician with that kind of sway
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The attacks are going to be brutal (endless identity stuff) but he has the resources in place to withstand them. And for people moaning about age: he's four years older than Trump and almost certainly in better health (fewer cheeseburgers) so whatever. Ageism is very offensive!
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I'll have an essay out soon that elaborates on these points
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I've really missed reading your delusions.
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Diminished. He lost his chance in 2016. He finally gained a popularity in MSNBC and CNN due to Trump bashing, but that will fade if the media has someone they like.
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In 2016 he went from 2% national name recognition to almost taking down someone with 98% name recognition, hundreds of millions, and the entire Dem party infrastructure. It's a new game this time around.
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bahahahahaha OMG it must be nice to be this out of touch
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How old will he be in 2020? Also as a white man, he's got a big hill to climb with primary democrat voters -- there's quite a bit of racism and sexism going on over there.
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But has the thumb changed on the scale of Dem primaries?
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Seriously? In circles I run in, DEMOCRATIC circles, he’s known as a meddling old spoiler. He should run as an Independent, not pretend he’s a Dem just to get campaign money. We’ve had enough of self-centered old men to last us. By the way, I’m old, not a youngster, lol
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What makes you say his political capital has grown? In my experience the opposite is true, as a lot of us who voted for him in the primary are not very impressed with the way he’s handled himself since then. Add that to the shady tax return/Lamont stuff and I don’t see growth.
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He sold out to Hillary. Bernie is not a fighter.
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True words
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