Bernie’s failures modulo DNC shennanigans, is really a failure of his movement rather than a personal failure of leadership. The movement could not gather as much mass as it needed. It thought its core grievances were more widely shared than they were.
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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 mean the answer is something you’ve pointed out before: that the economy never really recovered from 2008, quite seperate from any individual success or failure (which was never at issue).
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It kinda half recovered but people acted like it was booming. Even people who knew what an actual boom looks like from the 1990s
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It recovered at the top of the distribution and with some local variation. Everyone and where else has been stagnant, some rural or manufacturing centered etc. places never having recovered from that 90s boom to begin with.
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