That was such an odious campaign. From the basket of deplorables, to the "we're going to put a lot of coal miners out of work". The Hillbots were but, but - listen to the whole statement she made, it's quoted out of context. I say bullshit, it was class dogwhistles with cya qualifiers tacked onto the end.
Bernie Sanders said it before, and Joe Biden said the same thing. Listen to Thomas Frank -
"Reminiscing about the 2016 Democratic effort, Biden recalled how Democratic strategists told him they intended to “give up on white working-class folks”. “Well, look what’s happened,” he continued."
"He recalled in the interview being told by a Hillary Clinton operative in 2016 that he “had to make a distinction between progressive values and working-class values”."
I blame Doris Matsui. She was the one who passed the letter around congress that all of the women signed urging Hillary to run. Which neutered any chance for Warren, for one.
And Obama too, who totally backed the wrong horse. I think Joe would have probably squeaked it.
But if either Clinton or Biden had won, it would have been business as usual and just delayed the inevitable election of Trump or someone similar.
Bernie might have gotten knocked out by the blob, but he got to make his mark.
Hillary became the evil she thought she grew up fighting when she hired Dick Morris to run Billy's campaign back in the 90's.
By 2016 she just looked like...well, the Emperor in Star Wars..."you fool, you thought you were strong enough to fight me? You are weak, Bernie Skywalker."
That was such an odious campaign. From the basket of deplorables, to the "we're going to put a lot of coal miners out of work". The Hillbots were but, but - listen to the whole statement she made, it's quoted out of context. I say bullshit, it was class dogwhistles with cya qualifiers tacked onto the end.
Bernie Sanders said it before, and Joe Biden said the same thing. Listen to Thomas Frank -
"Reminiscing about the 2016 Democratic effort, Biden recalled how Democratic strategists told him they intended to “give up on white working-class folks”. “Well, look what’s happened,” he continued."
"He recalled in the interview being told by a Hillary Clinton operative in 2016 that he “had to make a distinction between progressive values and working-class values”."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/22/joe-biden-mystique-election-democrats
Meanwhile Donald Trump was flying into flyover country to talk to the proles while Clinton was in Malibu and the Vinyard.
As recently as 2016 Biden still occasionally appeared to be compos mentis. The Dems may have made a strategic error in running her instead of him.
Oh well. We got what we got. No use crying over spilt milk, etc.
I blame Doris Matsui. She was the one who passed the letter around congress that all of the women signed urging Hillary to run. Which neutered any chance for Warren, for one.
And Obama too, who totally backed the wrong horse. I think Joe would have probably squeaked it.
But if either Clinton or Biden had won, it would have been business as usual and just delayed the inevitable election of Trump or someone similar.
Bernie might have gotten knocked out by the blob, but he got to make his mark.
Hillary became the evil she thought she grew up fighting when she hired Dick Morris to run Billy's campaign back in the 90's.
By 2016 she just looked like...well, the Emperor in Star Wars..."you fool, you thought you were strong enough to fight me? You are weak, Bernie Skywalker."