If Bernie Sanders had gotten the nomination in 2016..

[JT-Money]

Bernie had a ton of momentum back then until the DNC sabotaged him. The same populist message from Trump wouldn't have hurt him like it did Hillary.

 

[Diunx]

He would had beaten Trump, people will still deny it and say that universally hated Hillary and that fukking Ghoul Biden were the only choices at the time but Bernie was THE candidate and the democratic party should be modeled after his policies and believes.

 

[Conan]

Maybe. He soured some Blacks with that "what is reparations?" fakkitry. Far from perfect.

His Achilles heel was the race side of things. He is not a racist by any means, but he refuses to see anything other than class in his analyses. Which made him look suspect or foreign to the old black voters and the Atlanta boules . Funny enough, that's a paradox where it strengthens him in a hypothetical national race, yet weakens him in the primaries.

 

[TripleAgent]

His Achilles heel was the race side of things. He is not a racist by any means, but he refuses to see anything other than class in his analyses. Which made him look suspect or foreign to the old black voters and the Atlanta boules . Funny enough, that's a paradox where it strengthens him in a hypothetical national race, yet weakens him in the primaries.

Supporting reparations for his people but pulling that bullshyt for ours says racist to me. fukk him.

 

[AQz]

I liked Bernie but no.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Dems snubbed bernie then didn't hold a primary this year. Theyre the guy on the bicycle that sticks a stick in the wheel then says why you do that to me

 

[vino]

No, do not let these folks lie to you. America would not elect a Jewish man with very socialist views to president. They say that now but it would have went just as Kamala.

 

[Jazzy B.]

OF COURSE he would have

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Idk if he woulda won. But the Latino vote was big with him and wouldn’t have defected to Trump especially in Florida.

Kneecapping Bernie is also a big reason why a lot of young male voters bounced. Two demographics that democrats shytted on that came back to hurt them.

Yup they lost the youth vote and been slowly losing the Latino vote ever since. Also Bernie was able to tap a bit into the rural "working class" whites that Hillary loss.

Get those three demographics plus the regular Democrat voters and he easily beats Trump.

Democrats chose to fight a fake populist with centrist that had a likability problem instead of an grassroot populist that was getting support from people that normally don't pay attention to politics.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Biden too. If Biden had ran in 2016, he would have washed Trump easily.

In another universe, Biden is the outgoing president due to term limits and not because the party forced him out, and whatever generic white guy VP he picked at the time would be the current president-elect.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

His Achilles heel was the race side of things. He is not a racist by any means, but he refuses to see anything other than class in his analyses. Which made him look suspect or foreign to the old black voters and the Atlanta boules . Funny enough, that's a paradox where it strengthens him in a hypothetical national race, yet weakens him in the primaries.

Older people tend to vote in the primaries and those older people tend to get their information from traditional media. CNN and MSNBC sent most of their time trashing Bernie and implying that he was a secret racist.

I think Bernie knows that racist white folks will cut off their nose to spite their face if they knew black folks could get equal treatment so he doesn't really speak on how his policies directly help us.

 

[BobbyWojak]

His Achilles heel was the race side of things. He is not a racist by any means, but he refuses to see anything other than class in his analyses. Which made him look suspect or foreign to the old black voters and the Atlanta boules . Funny enough, that's a paradox where it strengthens him in a hypothetical national race, yet weakens him in the primaries.

Supporting reparations for his people but pulling that bullshyt for ours says racist to me. fukk him.

I supported Bernie heavily but he's still a cac and was awful on race.

 

[Big Boss]

Yes

 

[HabitualChiller]

No, Trump probably would've went deep and brought up him being a communist or some shít.

 

[kingofnyc]

this Bernie shyt gotta STOP

it’s no fukking way. This country would elect a person who considers himself a Democratic socialist.

only, crazy far left progressives believe in that stupid shyt which is why I say there’s no difference between the far left and the far right both of Batshyt crazy