sigh this is going to be the inequality election
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Thread’s pretty good but I think there’s a misreading of Bernie vs Warren in there
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Yeah possibly. I can't bring myself to take Bernie as a serious representative of anything though. His appeal seems to be the ideologically active set rather than the merely resentful superset.
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The thing is though, if he wins the primary (I’d assign him maybe a ~10% chance of getting through) I think he represents the superset to which you’ve been pointing •very well•
Not just in US saltwater coast enclaves wracked by inequality...
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He may be too compromised by 2016 failure and the current extra strong alliance with the Big Tent woke left aka AOC.
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I don’t know. If Sanders won, yes he’d have an alliance with the emerging AOC wing. But he’d be pretty attractive to some of the Repub electoral coalition. He’d be on Fox a lot.
I think a Sanders general campaign would be pretty formidable against Trump.
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But that’s assuming a 2 way heads-up race.
I think what would finish Bernie off (if he won the Dem nom) is that it would almost certainly provoke a third party candidate in the general.
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