radius777
radius777's JournalCities are the base of the modern Dem party.
Metropolitan areas (ie, cities and their surrounding suburbs) are the blue areas of the country, also the most diverse.
It's deja vu all over again.
The party has been way too soft, walking on eggshells about Bernie, and should've gone in hard on him a long time ago.
His hardcore voters hate Dems and will never vote Dem; it doesn't matter if we kiss their asses or not, it's not going to work, and it only emboldens them to keep damaging Biden and the party like they did to Hillary.
The consolidation of rank-and-file Dem voters behind Biden IMO has as much to do with the Bloomberg camp and James Carville 'going hard' on Bernie during the week leading up to SC and Super Tuesday - as it had to do with Clyburn/Pete/Amy endorsements.
After the FL/AZ/IL primaries gave Biden an insurmountable lead, the party should've gone to Bernie and told him to drop out and endorse Biden, and if he failed to do this and instead wanted to make trouble then the party would have no choice but to unleash the oppo book (largely unused) against him and his wife.
Dems have been too soft and it's coming back to bite us - again.
Exactly, Bernie will not be the nominee.
In the tiny chance that Biden somehow is not the nominee (due to illness, scandal or whatever conspiracy theory the Bernie Bros are pushing on social media) - Bernie would still not have anywhere near the requisite delegate count and will not prevail in a contested convention, where the party would simply nominate a candidate/ticket to honor the spirit of the voters who chose Biden and who rejected Bernie.
Of course. "When someone shows you who they are,
believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou
Sanders is no liberal, neither is his base
whose views clearly are not in line with classic Dem (whether to the left or center) beliefs.
Their views are alt-left views - a fusion of anarchists, libertarians, socialists, communists - that ultimately despise the Dem party and its voters.
"I am not now, nor have I ever been, a liberal Democrat." - Bernie Sanders
What Bernie Sanders has said about the Democrats over the years - PolitiFact
Biden's numbers have been constant.
In the primaries he was national leader for a long time, then slipped, then his numbers snapped back to form on Super Tuesday.
Biden has consistently led Trump in national polling by +7 on average. (Harry Enten spoke about this the other day).
Biden is boring and gaffe prone but is viewed as genuine and empathetic - and experienced. I think this is what insulates him from attacks. People know/like 'Uncle Joe' even though he's not exciting.
He did much better with white working class voters (including in the Midwest/blue wall states) this time than Hillary did, who struggled against Bernie in this regard.
Biden's weakness is youth and progressives. Latino support is OK but could be better. Harris is still the best choice for VP because she's a star with the resume to be president. Warren may boost progressives but has little appeal to PoC. Klobuchar is another Kaine would not inspire the Obama coaliton enough.
This could be more 1980 than 2004, as the economy falls apart (recession, high unemployment) due to the pandemic and Trump's bungling of it.
The lack of rallies etc and social distancing helps Joe and hurts Trump.
Basically I think Joe will win the GE the same way he won the primaries. It will seem as though he's running a weak campaign, then will suddenly spring back and win by a good margin.
But we're going to have to work hard, also on downballot races.
Exactly, the alt-left is an illiberal left.
The alt-left is culturally libertarian and fiscally hard left, and rejects 'identity politics' which they see as alienating whites. This is abundantly clear on social media where they make their feelings fully known. It's not just about Russian bots, because many actual real life Sanders supporters and media outlets (Intercept,TYT,Chapo Trap House) parrot the same narratives. Many of them were against the Mueller investigation and the impeachment, and are sympathetic to Trumpism, dislike Democrats, etc. Basically the alt-left and alt-right are two sides of the same Putin backed coin.
If Sanders really cared about expanding his movement he would've dropped out and endorsed Biden, to build good will, get people united.
But this latest stunt furthered by his supporters (and Sanders has not come out to denounce it) is why regular Dem voters will never like the Bernie Bros/alt-left because of their toxic tactics - which are indeed unique to them - despite their excuses.
Millions can die AND a worse depression
if we fail to follow the advice of medical experts to flatten the curve.
If we do as the RW/Trump wants, people would be dying in the streets, many more sick, and the depression would be longer and deeper.
Covid 19 is not the flu. The flu has a 0.1 mortality rate and we have vaccines for it. Covid19 has a 3% mortality rate and we lack a vaccine or any prior immunity to it (is a new virus) thus it could kill millions.
Pelosi and Schumer could do daily briefings
maybe along with Dem officials from various states.
Cuomo has really been the lone strong Dem voice in all of this; without him it seems like we're just Trump's little elves just coming up with a bill he wants, rather than letting the public know that this is a Dem/left/FDR type measure to save the economy.
Dems failure to counter his 'daily briefings'.
If all your typical American sees is Trump and the covid crew giving briefings every evening - they see him as 'doing something', and won't give credit to Dems for this rescue bill which is ideologically a Democratic/left leaning thing to do - but Trump will be viewed as the one 'helping people' due to Dems failure to put their faces on it.
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