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In reply to the discussion: So Sanders is going back to running as an Indy for his senate seat. [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)there is no evidence of how a Sanders Presidential campaign would fare against Trump. How a challenger fares during the primary phase is different to how he or she fares during the presidential - we have no way of knowing.
You're on pure speculative fiction and you ignore the other points I raised.
"Bernie would have won" is literally a talking point against the DNC and the Democratic Party. It's the sort of stuff one could conveniently pull when one has some axe to grind.
It is a point that cannot be proven or disproven, it's a mental nugget fit to generate distrust of Democrats.
It's an abstract argument, which withers in the face of what the election was really about: the election was not about the DNC but the direction America should head.
The "Bernie would have won" narrative is partly responsible for the "corporatist" "neoliberal" template, forged in Anti-Hillary propaganda, to be applied to any Democrat who doesn't meet some arbitrary and selective purity test or anyone not connected to Sanders or his "revolution".
This impacts enthusiasm, support and even turn out.
And I repeat: It is divisive nonsense, an insult to those who supported the eventual candidate and absolves the loser of any blame.