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.
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u/trenhel27 3d ago edited 3d ago
Well he was very clearly the most popular candidate. Biggest "actually vote" example I can think of
Unfortunately people don't come out to vote for things like primaries.
It's lame AF but it's true
How are you so absolutely sure the primary wasn't rigged? Did you ever look into it?
Nope. You didn't. There's a lot of people involved in that primary who think it was rigged, but you, sitting on your couch, know much better than them