Bernie’s attacks did lasting damage to her candidacy because it helped shape the Republican counter narrative and convinced many progressives to either sit it out, waste a vote on a third party, or flip to Trump.
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This is demonstrably false and has been debunked repeatedly
sep 1, 2025, 7:46 am • 0 0 • view
the pretense that republicans wouldn't have attacked Hillary in the same way for the same things had Bernie not attacked her first is so insane I refuse to insult your intelligence by pretending you actually believe that
aug 31, 2025, 2:36 pm • 30 0 • view
of course it’s true it’s almost like voters… listen more to criticism from inside their own party, and to people in their party they trust, than the opposing team
aug 31, 2025, 3:16 pm • 2 0 • view
so the attacks from the Sanders primary campaign insofar as they matched attacks from the Trump campaign had a strong enough effect on democrats to make her lose in the general (while Sanders campaigned for her, for months) but not enough to make her lose the primary?
aug 31, 2025, 3:19 pm • 5 0 • view
Hi, my name is Mandoqueer, and I only discovered politics last year.
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Hi my name is Mark and i hate the left more than I hate republicans
aug 31, 2025, 2:40 pm • 5 0 • view
LOL. And, you even suck at repurposing rhetorical cheap shots.
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
don't know why anyone would go out of their way to frame republicans attacking the opposition's candidate for shit that was already on the news as something other than a complete inevitability otherwise
aug 31, 2025, 2:48 pm • 4 0 • view
bernie lost get over it
aug 31, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Mate this guy brought up Bernie first lmao
aug 31, 2025, 4:21 pm • 2 0 • view
and hit dogs holler the consequences of Bernie trying to do anything besides naming Post Offices will be forever a stain
aug 31, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
take your own advice and get over it then
aug 31, 2025, 4:28 pm • 2 0 • view
"Bernie is to blame for the way Republicans attacked Hilary Clinton c. 1992 - 2016"is really a hell of a statement for a person trying to take the "knows more about history" position.
aug 31, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
hey does that hat keep what's left of your brain in after a tragic self suck accident
aug 31, 2025, 3:03 pm • 16 0 • view
Holy crap it would suck to be you
sep 1, 2025, 12:15 am • 1 0 • view
You can't insult an intelligence that doesn't exist.
sep 1, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
It'd make more sense to blame 2008 Obama for this than 2016's "I don't give a damn about her emails," but that wouldn't fit your narrative.
aug 31, 2025, 7:37 pm • 1 0 • view
This might be the dumbest cause and effect I’ve ever come across
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 pm • 6 0 • view
Coming from the crowd that has been relitigating 2016 for nine fucking years, that’s a compliment.
aug 31, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
You literally started this thread by relitigating 2016 lmao
aug 31, 2025, 3:28 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s what you’re literally doing right now
aug 31, 2025, 2:55 pm • 12 0 • view
The fact that Bernie's light attack on Hillary did so much damage to her campaign proves how unready she was for the general election. Bernie didn't go hard enough.
sep 1, 2025, 10:07 am • 0 0 • view
You're right. He criticized her in substantive ways and people heard those substantive criticisms. The solution to this isn't to tell people of good conscience not to speak their mind, the solution is to present those people with candidates without such glaring inadequacies.
aug 31, 2025, 3:12 pm • 5 0 • view
No, devil, stay out. We are not doing forever 2016 posts on here. Scram
aug 31, 2025, 3:05 pm • 8 1 • view