Charm City Slicker (58-38): It is *extremely* telling who is still aggrieved about the centrists coalescing around one person (which of course was going to happen eventually) in 2020 instead of being angry at the Sanders campaign for giving up on Black voters ex ante facto. Losing by 30 points in SC was an embarrassment.

We've known what's what about Biden from the jump. What we're learning fully now is how lazy the people running the party are. Purely reactive, a faith things will work themselves out till the last minute. Ironically, we saw this when they finally rushed to put Biden over Sanders in the first place.

President Biden’s campaign had a bright fund-raising spell immediately after Thursday's presidential debate, but many big donors were alarmed by his shaky showing. Some floated interventions and wondered about how to reach Jill Biden.

Major Democratic Donors Ask Themselves: What to Do About Biden?www.nytimes.com Some floated interventions and wondered about how to reach Jill Biden. Others hoped the president would bow out of the race on his own. Many came to terms with the low chances that he will do so.

Does not speak highly of the left's power that we keep getting washed by these guys!

the left complaining in 2020 "they made a backroom deal to get pete buttigieg to endorse him!" like that's really what we're losing to? It's like saying you got beat up in the schoolyard by the science club.

It is *extremely* telling who is still aggrieved about the centrists coalescing around one person (which of course was going to happen eventually) in 2020 instead of being angry at the Sanders campaign for giving up on Black voters ex ante facto. Losing by 30 points in SC was an embarrassment.

There is no path toward swinging American politics to the left without the enthusiastic buy-in of Black voters, the base of the Democratic Party and the most historically and presently economically disenfranchised constituency. Failing to make those in-roads is a preemptive death knell for the left.

The entire strategy was to eke out a solid 20 to 30 something percent plurality and it was a viable one for the purposes of winning that primary as long as the field was divided, which it was for a remarkably long time. But it was never a mass movement and folks need to come to terms with that.

Going all in on Latinos + (often downwardly mobile) young urban whites gets you a decent constituent base that is even large enough to win Western states and some lily white places like New England and the Plains, but it is not a winning coalition inside the national Democratic Party.

Especially when to get to 30% they got the bulk of their support from people that were not regular democratic voters. What did they think the 70% of democrats were going to do - split their votes and lose control of the party like the GOP with Trump. We are not complete idiots

Who has a mass movement? Trump?

that was obviously not going to work. not the plan, which was to do that in the early states and then move to bigger leads after gaining legitimacy and momentum. there was speculation of bernie winning an outright majority after nevada. and talk of couping him at the convention if he didn't.

was shaun king not the best ambassador to the black community idk

I'm just glad the centrists got what they wanted. It's working so well. Go America and go democracy! I really believe this!!!!

Eventually? lol There was a regular rolling Darling of the Day, but none of them caught on until a bunch dropped out & power stepped in for real. Clyburn gets credit for SC. Bernie had not given up on Black voters.

I am a Bernie Bro and this is cope, sorry. Bernie Sanders himself did not give up on Black voters themselves, but *his campaign* did not seriously attempt to compete in South Carolina.

Insiders recount how Sanders lost the black vote — and the nomination slipped awaywww.washingtonpost.com Ex-staffers describe what they call blunders by the Sanders campaign in South Carolina and beyond, saying they tried to raise the alarm. The disconnect with black voters continues to limit Sanders’s i...

as a Bernie Bro, i don’t think the campaign worked that hard in any state. i drove all over the country volunteering for him and everywhere i went i canvassed in neighborhoods where no one set foot there until after early voting had ended and it was too late for people to change their work schedules

Clyburn had networks there built up over decades. Sanders did 70 events, *but not these three!* Yup. I think it's hard to say his campaign did not seriously attempt to compete there. But, that's just my opinion.

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