When the Democratic Party establishment consolidated behind Biden to stop Bernie in 2020, how could they have known there would be another election in 2024. It must have just slipped their mind!
Look I’d also rather have Bernie as both president and candidate but the idea that in 2020 it would be obvious which 80-something would be in a better state to run for reelection you lose me
I'm sorry, I love your work; but it was obvious and often remarked on. Both Trump and Biden were already rambling back then in 2020. Everyone remembers this.
I also remember when Bernie had a heart attack during the campaign? And when Biden promised he’d only serve one term. The problem now isn’t that Bernie isn’t in the Oval, it’s that Biden wouldn’t step aside and there was no clear candidate to replace him.
I think the party establishment saddling us with Biden despite his manifest unfitness is decidedly among the many problems in play with the election and everything else.
For example, Bernie wouldn't be Bibi's poodle.
Remember when he shouted at that woman and called her a "Dog Faced Pony Soldier"
Yes, moderates saw that and went "that's our guy!"
They've been lying through their teeth for years and now the whole world has seen the Emperor naked.
"My name is Joe Biden. I’m a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. Look me over, if you like what you see, help out. If not, vote for the other Biden"
- Joe Biden running for the Presidency in 2020.
Oh it's too late for you now, The Dems chose this decrepit loser because he was the only way to keep Bernie out (with help from Warren)
The price the Democrat elites were happy to pay to keep their taxes low was Trump in 2024. They made their bed now they can lie in it.
No it's the truth. They only way to stop Bernie in 2020 was to coalesce are Biden, knowing he was barely competent and declining by the day, and by having Warren stay in to try and split away some of the left-wing vote.
They pissed away their own legitimacy to keep Bernie from the White House .
> but the idea that in 2020 it would be obvious [...]in a better state to run for reelection you lose me
No, it really was. Joe's been just as bad as Hillary. Bernie was the only one with some conviction and solid leads for American people. Got nothing to do with mental decline.
Bernie is literally more than a year older than Joe Biden. And framing"Black South Carolinians don't know or trust Bernie Sanders" as "the Dem establishment consolidated behind Biden" is just not reasonable or a fair description of what happened.
I like Bernie and I liked many of his positions but if he had been the nominee he would have been the US version of Jeremy Corbyn (who led UK Labour to its worst defeat in decades).
We must be living in alternate universes, because all the moderate liberals I knew were saying "I'm not crazy about Corbyn but Johnson would be a disaster".
