The article isn’t terrible, it paints this as a split between progressives and liberals, akin to the Wallace V. Truman split. Then they ask if running Biden again will be enough when he’s clearly lost the support of progressives. It’s the liberal friendly version of what we were saying with “Bernie would have won”
It’s the liberal friendly version of what we were saying with “Bernie would have won”
Here’s a fun theoretical question: how much would be different right now if Bernie was president, with all consideration to how he’s behaved to this point in time
If Sanders were president then the Democrats would have made their own version of the Tea Party, like the Republicans did in 2012. The Democrats would have tried courting finance or tech or something for money, you’d hear a lot about something like “new liberalism” and there would be a new crop of absolute ghouls winning elections.
Republicans would try to position themselves as rational moderates. Not sure what else they’d do.
The article isn’t terrible, it paints this as a split between progressives and liberals, akin to the Wallace V. Truman split. Then they ask if running Biden again will be enough when he’s clearly lost the support of progressives. It’s the liberal friendly version of what we were saying with “Bernie would have won”
Here’s a fun theoretical question: how much would be different right now if Bernie was president, with all consideration to how he’s behaved to this point in time
Libs would be using him as an example of why going “further left” doesn’t work and would double down on “reaching across the aisle”
US government policy would be identical though.
If Sanders were president then the Democrats would have made their own version of the Tea Party, like the Republicans did in 2012. The Democrats would have tried courting finance or tech or something for money, you’d hear a lot about something like “new liberalism” and there would be a new crop of absolute ghouls winning elections.
Republicans would try to position themselves as rational moderates. Not sure what else they’d do.
Writers don’t write their own headlines