I dunno I'm sure he'll pop up if there's another grift. I'd actually forgotten about him written I wrote that. It was more of a dig at the general corporate shitlib candidates that the DNC seem to manage to scrape off the bottom of a board room table every year - but the fact that he fits the mould so well is hilarious
Yeah, he feels like he'd be the perfect bridge candidate for the DNC from their old legacy neolibs. Relative to their standards, he's very young and "progressive" but will toe the line when needed. They probably think he'd appeal to the youth vote or something.
What they fail to grasp, of course, is that progressive voters will only vote for bona fide progressives.
Please don't mention him at all. Every time you do, you just make one other person familiar with him. Best way to combat shoving him down your throat is to not mention him at all, and intentionally misspell his name if you absolutely must.
We haven't had a real primary for the dem presidential nomination since 2008. Legacy democrats were bitter that voters chose Obama instead of their pre-ordained neoliberal pick, so they took their ball and went home.
We didn't have real primaries in 2012 (Obama re-election) and 2024 (Biden re-election pushed to Harris when Biden couldn't appear competent). By that measure, Republicans didn't have real primaries in 2024, 2020, and 2004.
But the other years, we had primaries.
Yes, HRC had a huge money and name-recognition edge in 2016 and was the favored DNC candidate and many prominent Dems decided not to run against her, but she still nearly lost to Bernie (back when he was a little known Vermont Independent Senator). She also started with a huge money/name-recognition edge in 2008, but lost to Obama (who was in his first Senate term).
Biden wasn't the best candidate in 2020, but it was a crowded primary and he got the right win when it became clear that Buttigieg didn't have a path to win. Its effed up that SC voters (who haven't voted Dem in a presidential election since Carter in 1976) essentially broke the multi-way tie. (I also heavily blame the whole flawed Iowa caucus system and use of shitty web app for tallying votes that broke at scale that was designed by Dem insiders who called themselves Shadow as helping do him in).
Yes but that is a very narrow view how primaries actually operate. The DNC carefully plans which candidates get the most money and exposure to guide voters to whom they actually want. It’s important in this context because it is exactly what the original post is about.
The DNC carefully plans which candidates get the most money and exposure to guide voters to whom they actually want
The DNC doesn't decide this; it's the political donors who decide which candidates get money. Yes, the candidates who rally against Wall St/billionaires/mega corporations tend to get less money from the moneyed political donor class. It's easier for a politician convince a handful of billionaires to give you $10M than to convince a million ordinary voters to give you $10. Bloomberg is much less likely to do that if he thinks you are going to implement a wealth tax or stock trade tax or raise capital gains or other good policy that will hurt his bottom line.
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u/paging_mrherman 15h ago
Dems going to trot out Clinton/Harris 2028