• Optional@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Outside of the DNC fuckery around Bernie’s 2016 run, he still didn’t win enough primaries.

    Yes, be mad at the DNC for that, but Bernie wasn’t a shoo-in by any stretch - he literally didn’t win enough votes from Democrats in the primaries.

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      4 days ago

      Trump’s whole thing ran off of anti-establishment energy, without even being anti-establishment. Bernie was the real thing, and would have been drawing from the same energy.

      He’d have won.

      • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPM
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        4 days ago

        Bernie’s candidacy, and occasionally when AOC speaks up loud enough to make the news, are the only times my right-tilted family and acquaintances have ever seemed impressed by anything of the left.

        Yes, Bernie would’ve won. That’s why the Democratic Party blocked him.