Imagine the world we would be in now if it was Bernie back in 2016
Or at the very least, Biden in 2016.
LOL, nah. Pretending people were too sexist to vote for Hillary and some white male neolib would’ve done better is nothing but a fantasy neolibs tell themselves to try to excuse their corporate bootlicking.
Biden won against Trump, unless you are part of the MAGA cult that believes he lost in 2020.
Biden squeaked by only because Trump fucked up the pandemic so badly. That does not mean he would’ve won in 2016.
Frankly Hilary wasn’t a good candidate, Elizabeth Warren would have been better, to illustrate it wasn’t about her gender, but her specifically.
Hilary campaign was largely based around:
I’m a Clinton, remember us from 16 years ago, when my husband was president and I had nothing to do with policy, and mostly remembered as the woman who got cheated on? Clinton was remembered fondly enough I suppose, but that was 16 years ago, and any momentum from that had evaporated. The youngest voters were toddlers when that ended. If they wanted a bit of credibility by affinity to an administration, should have been Obama.
If you don’t vote for me, you are a terrible person.
“I’m with her”, which is just a terrible slogan that indicates a backwards relationship between a candidate and electorate. Even the megalomaniac asshole Trump managed to focus on “America” rather than himself with his slogan.
She didn’t do much to energize anyone, and despite lacking substance she still managed to have folks dislike her candidacy. Whether it be by ditching her home state to go somewhere that would give her a government position or by pissing off the Bernie wing, or, as stupid as it is, I even heard some Democrat mad at her for embarrassing Bill Clinton by “making” him cheat.
Trumpism has an unlimited amount of money to throw into its efforts. Elon Musk, the wealthiest man on earth, put more than $270m into Trump’s campaign, a tiny portion of his fortune. Other multibillionaires will join Musk in spending whatever it takes.
This is why neoliberals working with Republicans for 30 years to completely dismantle campaign finance regulations never was rationale.
The wealthiest will always side with the furtherest right party, doesn’t matter if they give to both, the check to the right will always be larger.
We spent 30 years digging our own grave till that was possible.
With the Republican party in the House having only a three-vote majority we can defeat draconian, anti-working-class legislation if just two Republican members of Congress vote no.
I’d also like to point out that the “victory fund” shenanigans is defunding state dem parties (literally by design) and costing us a shit ton more than two House seats.
We’re throwing everything at a presidential race instead of down allot races, and then when we did win the presidency, immediately said it didn’t fucking matter.
If that’s the case why didn’t we spend that $1,500,000,000 on down ballot races?
That shit couldn’t win 3 house races since Biden spent four years telling us presidents were powerless?
FUCK
It should have been Bernie!