My dad was traumatized by Reagan's election and told me that, politically, he was super left wing, but when voting in Democratic presidential primaries, he gave zero consideration to that and only focused on electability. I thought this was kind of narrow and sad at the time but now I get it
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Bernie was broadly popular but also too left lol
And yes, Sanders probably would have chopped up Trump too:
https://medium.com/extra-extra/yes-sanders-would-have-won-exploding-false-clintonite-narratives-7c5a6bd17091
I really was shocked when Obama won. I did not believe it until the 2008 election was called. Before that, I thought a Black person could never win. But look at the backlash since then!
. We elected the most bottom of the barrel white man and now we will get those consequences. We will learn.
But that's insane, and (intentionally) doesn't assess the real problems with those campaigns.
But the consequences of even a single GOP presidency absolutely swamp whatever marginal benefits we'd get from having an exec that is further left. The goal is a Democratic president. End of story.