an underrated theme in republican politics is that they feel that they were robbed in 2012 because they "held their nose" and nominated the "moderate" romney, and then Obama, in the greatest crime of the 21st century, compaigned against him anyway, which they feel should have been against the rules
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Chase Woodruff
A bunch of Republicans decided a while ago that this is a plausible-sounding way to let the party off the hook for Trump 2016, but it’s still baby-brain nonsense. 2012 wasn’t an especially nasty campaign and Romney wasn’t entitled to the presidency for being a doting grandpa
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I wouldn’t brag, If I were them
And then they did not do that.
https://www.npr.org/2013/03/18/174665725/rnc-report-a-postmortem-on-failed-2012-election
"If we do that we will lose all these reactionaries plus some of them will threaten me instead of my opponents"
"Okay, so... more gerrymandering and voter suppression then!"
That was Romney, right?
Bernie’s strength is understanding the power of economic class. Bernie’s weakness is believing that everything is due to economic class.
John Kerry 2004
Al Gore 2000
Crazy thing is parties USED TO just nominate the decent, moderate-ish, good-at-governing types! We had like a long track record of it
And
He’s a Nazi lmao
He comes off moderate because respectability politics, he's Mormon, and superficially "nice".
(There are kind Mormons, there are kind people everywhere, but not in politics imo)