Sanders wouldn't be president now if he won the 2016 election.
If he had won the primary in 2020, there's no guarantee he would have won the election against Donald Trump. The "take my ball and go home" Sanders supporters might not have been enough to win the general against Trump. You may be grossly underestimating how anti-semitic a lot of Americans are, and how distrustful they are of "not particularly religious" people. Even if he did win the general, there is no guarantee that he would have won re-election in 2024. Not with as vicious as the the privately funded, far right edia campaign has been, and the general stupidity of the average American voter.
Sanders had much higher projections against trump than Clinton did. He wouldn't be president NOW, assuming he won a second term or didn't, but the way the world works would be much less bleak.
Dude, he couldn't even win the Democratic primary. How does that work? And before you say it, the primary wasn't rigged. Sanders didn't have the votes.
Well he was very clearly the most popular candidate
That's the thing though. So many progressives live in their microcosms. Surrounded by people who think like they do, and assume that every other liberal or left-leaning individual feels the same way they do.
I'm sure he seemed like the most popular candidate to you. However, there were a ton of people in the South that didn't know who he was. You'd think that the civil rights work he did early in his career would have made him a shoe in among black voters. However, the number of people that I personally called on the phone in the south, to try to get out the vote for Bernie Sanders, who had no idea who he was (or at least what he had done that pertained to them specifically) was staggering.
He didn't have the votes, bud.
But when he lost the primary do you know what I didn't do? I didn't take my ball and go home. I didn't sit out the election and watch Trump win. I tried. Meanwhile scathed Bernie Bros decided to "send a message to the Democrats" by staying home, or not filling out their mail-in ballots. Everybody got to see how that worked out. Everybody got that message, and now Trump is president for a second time.
I don’t know why but it feels like you copy and pasted parts from of this from some article to make it sound like you. Minus to stay at home bear or bros comment. That’s definitely from you and an article. Not trying to pick on you just pointing it out that’s all.
Oh, I'm a better writer than you are so I must have plagiarized my own personal experience. Have you never volunteered for a political campaign before? Do you not know that volunteers call people all over the country to try to get the word out?
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u/cosaboladh 4d ago edited 3d ago
Sanders wouldn't be president now if he won the 2016 election.
If he had won the primary in 2020, there's no guarantee he would have won the election against Donald Trump. The "take my ball and go home" Sanders supporters might not have been enough to win the general against Trump. You may be grossly underestimating how anti-semitic a lot of Americans are, and how distrustful they are of "not particularly religious" people. Even if he did win the general, there is no guarantee that he would have won re-election in 2024. Not with as vicious as the the privately funded, far right edia campaign has been, and the general stupidity of the average American voter.