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Topic subject | Only if you assumed someone less "moderate" would have won. |
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13314509, Only if you assumed someone less "moderate" would have won. Posted by stravinskian, Tue Feb-19-19 04:41 PM
You could just as well argue that our candidate wasn't moderate enough.
Hillary was running as a progressive way before anyone was even paying attention to Bernie. Bernie just made her look like a moderate by taking all of her proposals and (mindlessly) dialing them up by a single tick. The public option became M4A; $12 federal minimum wage became $15; free community college became free four-year college; ...
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