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13370788, disappointing night for ‘progressives’ all around.
Posted by Reeq, Wed Mar-04-20 01:57 PM
that brand of elimination/grievance politics is just not resonating with a lot of people.

its becoming a broken record.

obama inspired his seeds to build coalitions and adapt to the needs of their constituencies.

bernie inspired his seeds to mudsling and scorch as much earth as possible to the point it suppresses their own base.

like you got ‘progressives’ running in little peaceful local elections calling everyone corrupt and establishment puppets lol. who the hell wants to vote for that?

its all led to bernies base basically eroding except for young people and latinos and those are two groups with some of the worst turnout rates. aggrieved rural voters who used to relate to bernies anti establishment message are even jumping off the train.

people said bernie would fail to expand his base. he did them one better and made his base even smaller.

instead of figuring out how to appeal to more voters...and actually garner that big broad coalition they bragged about in polls (lol in hindsight)...his surrogates are on twitter posting selective exit poll numbers with young people and calling everyone else out of touch.

i cant call it fam.