• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      DNC misread the room. It was populist season, and only one populist ran…

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      1 year ago

      It was never really an option. Sanders far outperformed even his expectations. But in running as he did. He showed others how to actually make change. Work from within the party to pull them left. Sanders’s performance and work as a Democrat senator did more to pull the party left than 100 years of 3rd party protest votes. This is the lesson we should go away with. And never stop applying it.