• DdCno1@beehaw.org
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    10 hours ago

    I doubt that. He wasn’t even able to convince Democrats beyond young, white colleges educated men - who are outraged by the mere thought that his appeal starts and ends with them, who dive head first into conspiracy theories that have one thing in common: They all ignore this simple fact.

    Look, he’s among a small handful of truly incorruptible American politicians and he deserves respect for this, but he has never been presidential material and never will be.

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      6 hours ago

      You think his appeal is only to white college educated men? What a fucking wild take.

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      8 hours ago

      Bernie would have won the fuck out of 2016.

      Hillary almost won, and she had essentially nothing to bring beyond being blue, a lady, and continuing the status quo. On top of that she is too fake for politics, which is a high level of fakeness. Bernie would have been an upgrade to everyone who doesn’t work in DC.

      How he would have done as president, I have no idea. But he absolutely would have won.

    • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 hours ago

      Bernie certainly had/has more support than young, white, college educated men. In 2016, so many people from different ages and walks of life were at the two of his rallies I attended and basically all the people I knew voting blue were more interested in Bernie that Hillary.

      I see that he got shafted by media and the party more than he was not as popular.