However, I can’t say that with total confidence, because there are so many variables and because Biden was an extremely powerful primary candidate, even if he may not have seemed like it to the average onlooker.Let’s remember: in the last sixty-five-plus years, no current or immediate past vice-president has ever mounted a serious run for president and not successfully secured his party’s nomination at least once.
But I believe that we have an obligation to look back on the painful past, to learn lessons for the future.Yes, it is true: a small group of us with many years of campaign experience pushed Bernie to sharply contrast his own progressive record with Biden’s This is campaigning 101: you contrast, or you lose. However, I can’t say that with total confidence, because there are so many variables and because Biden was an extremely powerful primary candidate, even if he may not have seemed like it to the average onlooker.Let’s remember: in the last sixty-five-plus years, no current or immediate past vice-president has ever mounted a serious run for president and not successfully secured his party’s nomination at least once. Working on his campaign was a great honor, and I’ve What follows are some frank takeaways from the campaign. I’m not sure.I am confident, however, that a stronger contrast would have at least put us in a In the absence of a tough critique early on, and with no day-to-day focus on his record, Biden was able to solidify an “electability” argument he didn’t deserve or earn.According to exit polls, Biden was able to win the largest share of Democratic voters in fifteen states who said health care was their top priority, even though a majority of Democratic voters in those states said they support replacing private insurance with a government-run plan — a position Biden Biden won Midwest states that have been ravaged by the trade deals that he himself Biden even won the most Democratic voters in eleven states who said climate was their top issue, despite his By the time our campaign was finally comfortable consistently making a strong case against him, it was after Super Tuesday — and it was too late.If you’ve read this far, I know what you are wondering: what explains Bernie’s resistance to more sharply contrasting with Biden?In my opinion, three things, with the third being the most problematic for the future:That culture, of course, is the structural factor that will last beyond the Bernie campaign, and it is a huge problem. If you somehow think this primary was uniquely “negative” because Bernie once in a while gently mentioned Joe Biden’s vote for the Iraq War, you are apparently Rip Van Winkle waking up from a fifty-year slumber.The opposite dynamic defined the 2020 primary. It is a new tyranny of decorum that aims to convince voters to value etiquette, pleasantries, and party unity over everything else — even their own economic interests.Let’s remember: we have just experienced modern history’s first contested Democratic presidential primary in which the candidates declined to seriously criticize each other in any kind of sustained way.There were certainly momentary flash points, but compared to past primaries, this was a muted affair. If the legislation passes, it would not merely be an epic tale of greed – the new funding stream for corporate lobbying groups would bolster the very forces that make sure federal policy disempowers workers, maximizes private profit and generally protects the ruling class.Taken together, these initiatives would route yet more public money through a corporate insurance bureaucracy in hopes that medical care eventually trickles down to Americans who desperately need it. Hier sollte eine Beschreibung angezeigt werden, diese Seite lässt dies jedoch nicht zu.
I deeply respect his life’s work, and he remains an inspiration to me — and no amount of post-election gossip, punditry, or backbiting will change that. The fossil-fuel giants intensifying the climate cataclysm won’t be deterred by gentility. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)Our new issue – looking at what the Bernie campaigns accomplished and the work left to do – is out this week. Since December, David Sirota has, on Twitter, on the website Capital & Main, and in columns in The Guardian, been trashing most of Sanders’s Democratic opponents—all without … During the debate over the Democratic bill, nine progressive lawmakers made a Taken together, the spectacle was more confirmation that whatever resistance exists in the nation’s capital, it is so often performance art, rather than anything real.“Outside groups and House lawmakers need to work together to build a populist bloc – probably inclusive of moderate Democrats and perhaps even an occasional Republican – who will stand united to force votes to ensure that our economy does right by ordinary people,” said David Segal of Demand Progress, pointing to The tragedy is that we’re already moving in that wrong direction, and chances to change the political dynamic do not come around often.
Many of the self-styled Making matters worse was the theater on the House floor.