Thats Bernie's fault, honestly. He was irresponsible with how he allowed himself to be framed and inadvertently capped real chances for the left to make credible gains outside of primarying safe blue districts.
You gotta know the territory you're playing with and thusly why Warren was the right candidate for the moment.
Politics is more than positioning, its delivery and threading the needle.
I think it goes both ways. The party can also admit that it needs to present some progressive policies in order to win back disillusioned voters. Bernie’s conviction in his position perhaps made it difficult to dress him up as a centrist candidate for all but the fact is that him and his movement are still necessary in order for Biden to win. Bernie’s failure is also as much the miseducation of generations to what Socialism is if not more than it was his own failure to be more centrist.
Biden saying he’s for the public option is big imo. I woulda took a PO from Obama if they couldn’t get Single Payer done. If Biden can and will do it that’s big for a younger voter like me. Bernie’s involvement in the race and pushing Biden more to the left gon end up helping him in the end.
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