The thing that's telling and exasperating about the centrist "Biden must drop out" calls is that... this was their guy! They act like the left insisted on him! But Biden was the guy they were saying Democrats should instead rally around when it looked like we might pick Bernie!
Dude, it never looked like we were going to pick Bernie. He had no chance whatsoever with the majority of the actual Dem base, whose concerns he dismissed as "identity politics."
Bernie wasn't able to break 30%, & ironically for a socialist, didn't realize he was presenting his opponents with a very simple collective action problem.
bernie was beating biden in one-on-one polls a few days before that happened. it was obvious they could do this, but what surprised me was the dramatic effect it had on polls between like friday and monday.
He actually wasn't, is the problem. Biden took a big jump as he absorbed Klobuchar, Buttigeig, & O'Rourke's supporters (& also much of Warren's) but he was already leading Bernie. Also you need to ask yourself why all those millions of voters switched to Biden instead of Sanders in the first place.
Bernie as I said couldn't break 30% but then all the shitlib voters worked collectively towards their "Bernie Sanders shouldn't be the nominee" goal & decided on a single candidate to vote for & now Biden is president.
yes, and as i said, the surprise on my end at the time was not that they might do this, but that it would so effectively sway their voters, given previous head-to-head polling.
Also bears saying that Sanders could have cut Buttigieg and Klobuchar into his coalition if he'd anything to offer and were constitutionally capable of that sort of dealmaking
ryan grim's latest book notes that they had two campaign offices in burlington, a larger real one, and a smaller one to take bernie to so he would not freak out about how many staff they had hired. he was not running that show i think.
but a hostile media environment which amplified his negative supporters meant that he was the only candidate seemingly expected to answer for random people on twitter.
hey Harris started off calling Biden racist and now she's VP. Bernie has never been anything but respectful. Warren read too many articles about mean tweets i guess.
I won't pretend her signaling that he was a dick she didn't want to work with colored my opinion of him, but setting aside that's on Sanders as a candidate, I was pretty primed to support someone else before those revelations
But Proof how would you have known the guy who hired Briahna Joy-Gray, David Sirota, & Jeff Weaver was a dick if Elizabeth Warren didn't mind control you into thinking as she commanded?
The campaign was friendly with the podcast leading that charge. Sanders might not have realized how enmeshed his batshit hires were with the dirtbag left, but I think that's a *terrible* reflection on the guy running to staff the executive
I don’t think the campaign being friendly with supportive media means you can attribute anything that outlet does to the campaign. Absolutely agree with you on the terrible staffing though.
if you believe he said that a woman can't be president, i would think that is much more disqualifying than if he lied about having said it, so i am surprised that this is the concern.
I mean, the two-facedness from a prospective coalition leader is a very serious accusation in its own right, but yes, finding out he is doing sexism on behalf of voters is disqualifying too
Interesting feedback, I'll take it under advisement.
Warren's disposition towards Sanders was based in a real, tangible event that we all watched happen live on TV. He had the opportunity to rebut or explain but instead he chose to lie.
