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Will the Democrats learn from Zohran Mamdani’s victory? | Bernie Sanders (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think the opposite. They will learn not to hold primaries because that goes against their interests.

They'll keep trying the Hillary / Kamala strategy until they get lucky or the US is done for good and the notion of a government becomes pointless.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Tbf there is an argument to be made that the “Kamala” strategy worked just fine, people were actually hyped up and did get out the vote. She just was undermined by election fuckery. Eventually it will be fully understood how we were never supposed to be here, but shit was rigged.

    Progressives acting like she didnt have a chance at winning is honestly pretty dumb, even if I would like to see a more progressive party myself. She was a good candidate. Never in my life have more people hit me up at the exact same moment than when Joe Biden dropped out

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Tbf there is an argument to be made that the “Kamala” strategy worked just fine, people were actually hyped up and did get out the vote.

    This is straight up historical revisionism, which is wild considering this shit happened last year. Harris lost all swing states. I repeat, she lost all swing states. She allowed fucking Trump to run on being anti-war and pro-worker. Fucking Trump. What are you even talking about?

    Never in my life have more people hit me up at the exact same moment than when Joe Biden dropped out

    That was excitement at having someone other than Biden to vote for, which Harris quickly squandered.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The conspiracy would have to be way too big for all the polling to be as close as it was and have her lose votes pretty consistently across many different voting systems in the way she did. Maybe there was some meddling on the margins (still looking forward to real evidence) but the fact is it was as close as it was because a ton of people just didn't care. Most of the excitement was that we could vote for both Not Trump and Not Biden at the same time.

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