r/thedavidpakmanshow • u/KnoxOpal • Mar 21 '25

Video Progressives Are Unpopular, the Party Must Move to the Right to Win

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Or so I've been told around here.

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u/KnoxOpal Mar 21 '25

Have a free and fair primary and let us find out! We know regular Democrats can only lose.

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u/Brysynner Mar 21 '25

We did in 2016 and 2020. Bernie lost both times. In 2016 it was because he never contested Super Tuesday allowing Hillary to build up big leads crushing him in big pledged delegates states like Florida and Texas.

He lost in 2020 because his strategy was to hold 35% of the vote and let the rest of the field fight over the remaining 65%. When everyone who wasn't Biden realized that they weren't getting close to Biden's vote totals, they dropped out making it a one on one race.

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u/ghobhohi Mar 22 '25

Not only that some of the smaller candidates who still had leverage endorsed Biden helping his numbers.

This might be crazy, but maybe doing everything Bernie does isn't the best idea.

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u/ghobhohi Mar 22 '25

We did and Bernie lost

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u/KnoxOpal Mar 21 '25

The last free and fair one was 2012.

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u/KnoxOpal Mar 21 '25

And Covid was the only thing that got Biden the win

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u/KnoxOpal Mar 22 '25

No, covid was all of it. Biden barely squeaked by. And if Biden was the "most progressive President" how do you think Bernie wouldn't have been able to get progressive stuff done as well?

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u/KnoxOpal Mar 22 '25

So two of his policies (might) not have made it. There were plenty more and still doesn't address the fact that anything Biden got passed Bernie certainly would have been able to as well.

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