• tankplanker@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    The problem is that Bernie is too left leaning for the right of the Dems. Its highly likely people who supported and funded Hillary would have withdrawn their support and money, and some may have even given it to Trump instead. You can see with Mamdani how that’s playing out, they’d rather field Cuomo as a spoiler candidate than let a progressive win.

    Dont get me wrong, it was clearly manipulated to steal the nomination from Bernie, and Bernie would have been the better candidate and president than Hillary, but I no longer think it would have been the slam dunk that I did at the time he would get in, simply because hes against both sets of interests at the top of the Dems and the Repubs.

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        15 days ago

        Hillary probably didn’t do it because shes not very likeable, it would have been another Jeb Bush style mistake. Jeb made himself look worse, so sometimes not bothering is the lesser hurt. Hillary is a long way from her husband in that regard when he was at his peak. Bernie would make it work, that’s obvious, but then he would never had not done it.

        The problem is that you don’t just need one thing, you need as many things as you can get, and what you certainly do not need is your own party’s management working against you. Winning when they cut you off becomes very difficult as you lose the biggest funding hose.

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          12 days ago

          Hillary probably didn’t do it because shes not very likeable

          Yeah, but she has never shown any indication that she knows this.

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        14 days ago

        War criminal and Epstein buddy Bill?
        And I don’t want to see Hitlery, the other Clinton warcriminal ghoul’s face ever again.