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I can’t put a finger on it but hard core Bernie supporters seemed to assume like 2.5x political legitimacy than they actually had, in terms of the number of people they could be considered as speaking for. Like 20% presumed to be 51%.
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There was an assumed consensus in how they spoke to everybody else who self-classifies left of center. “Of course you agree with us about everything otherwise you’d be for the corrupt party amirite?” attitude I found grating. It’s possible to dislike the party AND be center-left.
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A weakness of the Bernie mob vs Trump mob was grievances focused on future rather than the past. “You’ve destroyed our future” from a 20-year-old seems like premature eager embrace of victimhood. “You destroyed our life in the last 25 years” from a 55 year old seems more real.
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Even if true, there’s a temptation among older people (like me, Warren guy) to wonder... how can you declare failure/foreclosed future before even trying. Perhaps unfair but that was my gut response.
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I agree. But had current events happened 6 months earlier might he be coasting to the nomination right now?
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Little did the movement realize that “people who didn’t vote in the last election” was not a category that purely aligned with their beliefs
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Bernie's policies are widely supported by the US. But the democrats cared more about "beating Trump." Media narrative is Bernie couldn't beat Trump. That's really it.
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What I find so perfect about it all is that Biden’s initial surge was powered by African-Americans in South Carolina. The Democratic base, not the media nor the DNC.
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speaks to a left that doesn't know its history. The New Deal was brought about by bottom-up organizing of unions and cooperative societies trying to take the presidency is equivalent to running into the mangot line. Building dual power is war of maneuver
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