If Obama had seated a progressive or even nonbiased chair then it would have been Bernie 2016/2020, and a very good chance we stretched it to another progressive in 2024.
Obama did a lot of things wrong, but just leaving Hillary’s people in charge of the DNC snowballed into trump and everything else that’s been fucked up the last decade.
And there was zero besides spite. He thought without him the DNC would die, but he never tried to replace it with anything. He was just mad they were biased on the primary and didn’t help him in the general.
It was the first sign that everything else was bullshit. That he valued his ego more than doing his job.
I disagree, and despite polling being on my side that Bernie would have won, it’s kind of a moot point because:
If Hillary wouldn’t have been cooperating with the DNC to such a level that she was funding them and they had to get everything approved by her campaign, she likely would have focused on the primary and wouldn’t have talked trump into running and goosed his primary campaign.
If Obama had seated a progressive or even nonbiased chair then it would have been Bernie 2016/2020, and a very good chance we stretched it to another progressive in 2024.
Obama did a lot of things wrong, but just leaving Hillary’s people in charge of the DNC snowballed into trump and everything else that’s been fucked up the last decade.
And there was zero besides spite. He thought without him the DNC would die, but he never tried to replace it with anything. He was just mad they were biased on the primary and didn’t help him in the general.
It was the first sign that everything else was bullshit. That he valued his ego more than doing his job.
That’s wishful thinking or hindsight at best. Bernie would not have won 2016. The voters at the time were already drunk on burning the place down.
I disagree, and despite polling being on my side that Bernie would have won, it’s kind of a moot point because:
If Hillary wouldn’t have been cooperating with the DNC to such a level that she was funding them and they had to get everything approved by her campaign, she likely would have focused on the primary and wouldn’t have talked trump into running and goosed his primary campaign.