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DoomTheGyarados posted...

I also very much disagree that Bernie ran a horrible campaign. His 2016 campaign was horrible, but his 2020 campaign was very well organized, had lots of volunteers, and included a bunch of outreach to minorities. It worked well for Latino votes and black voters, well, they really like Biden.

I mean...that's why it's fair to say he ran a bad campaign. Organization was good but the strategy was not. He had zero plan after NV. Well, his plan was to concede SC and the rest of the South to his opponent, because he got pretty close in 2016 by doing that, which ended up being a terrible plan because the circumstances were so different. His campaign learned the wrong lessons. They banked on overwhelming new/youth turnout and didn't get it.

But ultimately I think you are right in that the type of candidates progressives need just don't exist. To get the support he needed from voters Bernie would have had to pivot to being a coalition-building candidate that will work together with community and the party - essentially a competent version of Warren's campaign with Bernie's charisma and record, and that's just not his style. And even then it would win him no favors from the establishment itself - after all they went after Warren anyways when she was briefly a frontrunner.

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