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Inohira posted...

What I mean is that if they aren't Democrats then they may have just been natural swing voters, instead of taking action based on spite against Hillary.

Ah, well I should have clarified that by "who says they have to be Democrats", I mean Independents further to the left of Dems who refuse to register as a Dem out of principle, yet often vote for those candidates because the alternative is, well, obvious. I'm sure the people you're talking about exist, however I'm specifically addressing people further to the left of Dems who will sabotage the Dem Party out of spite or some personal moral mission. Left-wing accelerationists also do this as they think the quickest way to a socialist/progressive society is to allow Republicans to take over, instigate fascism, and then American society will overwhelmingly rise up against them and end right-wing rule. That route is nonsensical to me as even when fascist societies are eventually overthrown, it's not immediate or quickly. Millions of "undesirable" people would be culled before Americans had the testicular fortitude to cohesively go, "hey, maybe I should do something to stop these fascists from oppressing and executing civilians?"

Inohira posted...

I'm pretty sure he didn't vote for Biden later either, so again that's not a Hillary-specific bias. That's just an anti-establishment voter.

Actually he did. He was one of those fools who "stood by his principals and there was just no way he could vote for Hillary" and also underestimated the damage Trump would do to this nation if he won. A very common belief in 2016, unfortunately. Also, I remember his name now. It was Covenant. Any of my fellow 261ers who remember how this dude posted and wanna chime in with other examples, by all mean.

Inohira posted...

While that's probably a thing specifically I feel it's beyond the scope of the point. I was just doubting that any Bernie supporters are the ones talking about Hillary runs at this point. That just comes off to me as genuine Trump supporter behavior.

I think that's only because we haven't had those articles circulate for awhile. Like I said, the crux of them was back in 2016-2018 where people were worried she'd come back in 2020 for a rematch and those articles teased the parts of their brain that sent them into a tizzy.