Nobody in government would have worked with bernie, he has zero friends because he made himself an outsider to both parties. Thus nothing would get done.
Bernie couldn't even win a primary, even the second time when they used his "rules". Too top that off, there is a serious case to be made for the "Bernie to alt-right grifter" pipeline considering how much of his senior staff are now alt-right mouth pieces.
Not popular enough to win either primary, and not popular enough to win black voters who are usually needed to secure the democratic nomination.
Also, he isn't a Democrat so he had no right to even participate in their primary or demand to use their resources, him running in the Democratic primary was a courtesy he shouldn't have been extended in the first place.
popular on reddit and with his base, but not popular enough to win a nation wide election or even a primary. the way people talk about him being pushed out by the democratic establishment and that the primaries were rigged against him, i don’t think they grasp that he still didn’t win a majority of primary voters.
in 2016, he wasn’t happy with the fact that super delegates made up a big portion of vote castors at the convention and were already committed to clinton before the race even began, and that is a valid concern, but he only got 43% of the popular vote compared to clinton’s 55% so it wouldn’t have mattered anyways. they fixed this in 2020, but this time, he only got 26% of the vote and his strategy was to rely on a split field. when all the moderates realized biden had the best chance of attracting voters, they all dropped out and supported him. they didn’t take any votes away from bernie here, they just directed all their supporters to one candidate. who aligned with their views more.
bernie was definitely popular among his base, but his support never even reached above half of the democratic party, much less the entire country.
yes but them unifying didn’t cost him many voters. he was getting ~1/4 of the vote regardless, the only difference was whether the remaining 3/4 was being split between 6 different candidates or 1. if his only chance of winning was to hope the other candidates split the vote, then he’s not as popular as you thinks he is.
If all of those candidates shilling for Biden in one moment doesn’t tell you the establishment hates Bernie than keep licking the establishment Dems boots I guess
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u/Potentputin 1d ago
I honestly think bernie could have healed this nation. He’s old and looks white to me.