there are still some of my fellow shitlibs who hold minor grudges against sanders for things that are years in the rearview, but sanders has been one of biden’s strongest soldiers since day one of this administration.
The leftiest people in Congress know that Biden, for all his faults, is the best president we've had since FDR, and it's because they've helped push him that way and know that ships take a long time to turn. It's going to be really infuriating if people throw away that progress because it's too slow
Here's the thing: Government is a motherfucker, and it's always going to suck. That's just the nature of the thing. Bitching an moaning about it not being the perfect little thing you'd like it to be doesn't change that.
The thing about Sanders is that everyone gives him shit because they want socialism to be a delusional, pie-in-the-sky fantasy politics, but the reality is that Sanders has always been a socialist in principle but a *relentless* pragmatist in practice.
Sanders' flagship policy was universal healthcare, which is the norm for every other first world nation but us. nothing about what he or his supporters wanted was delusion pie in the sky fantasy
oh, yeah, sorry I can see why what I said was confusing. I was using "everyone" as apostrophe for the people who largely control the mainstream conversation around politics, and who treated universal healthcare as a necessarily impossible political problem.
his fireside speeches on youtube recently have been excellent, i feel like he's really acting like the leader of a minority party in a coalition and i mean that in a positive way, he's setting the tone for everyone else
I like Senator Sanders far more than Presidential Candidate Sanders for sure. Helps that his Senate staff is pretty normal progressives instead of the weird tankies and dissidents his campaign attracted.
I don't actually know and I am speaking purely as a mostly uninformed citizen, the way I would if we were like chatting as an airport bar (I overqualify things like this when talking about candidates bc people get mad) but I feel like the bullshit attacks on Hillary were mostly his campaign, not him
Yes (and not having a presidential campaign apparatus around him is assuredly part of why he's been good the last few years lol), but also I think there wasn't really any love lost between them
I wonder if it's also that in 2016 he was winning enough contests, even ones late in the game, that it never really felt over to his campaign and supporters where in 2020 it was pretty obvious that he had a much lower ceiling of support.
My theory is that Bernie's biggest problem was always that he has absolute dogshit hiring sense, and surrounds himself with nutjobs despite being pretty reasonable himself. That in turn translated into supporters who are there for the nutjobs more than the man himself.
If you’re Bernie or AOC or whoever, and you really get up close to this shit, the people who are going to be tapped for the hypothetical Trump ‘24 admin, you won’t sleep unless you try to prevent it posthaste
I never really had a grudge against Sanders. The man was almost always a team player when it counted. The problem was with Sanders people who were a huge part of why he didn't win in 20. IMHO.
