When NPR dedicated all of 2016 to breaking Bernie down I knew it was compromised.
There was no breaking needed. Contrary to what some people continue to believe, he never had any chance of winning the presidential election.
He was never anything other than a DNC sheepdog to keep disenfranchised Democrat voters rounded up and trapped in the party.
Yeah, no. He has a legitimate history as a political activist going back to the Civil Rights movement. As flawed as he is, it’s deeply dishonest to call him a mere puppet.
Yeah those commenters above you are insane to think he wouldn’t have won if the Dems fully backed him lol. We probably could have pulled some conservatives because his policies are so universally loved.
I’m one of those commenters and here’s why I disagree: Americans tend to vote against their own interests. His policies are popular in isolation, but outside of a subset of the predominantly young, male, white college-educated demographic, he has never been able to associate himself with these policies and capture the rest of the public, especially those who actually vote.
and yet they did it anyway, so either NPR(DNC by extension) is incompetent or you’re wrong
like saying unions don’t work, while big business spends tons fucking them so they don’t work
It was so easy to get America’s boomers to believe this in both primaries, and thus it became true. We are really a country of morons.
That’s what most people said about Trump in 2016.
