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And why do you think mainstream democrats focus on "race and identity coalition building" and Sanders somewhat casually segued from his 2016 campaign messaging of the "shafting of the 90% (there is no American "working class" any more, properly defined) by the PMC/Billionaire club," to the 2020 campaign to the more tepid and lachrymose "race and identity" nonsense?

In point of fact, Sanders didn't really shift gears or dramatically alter his messaging all that much in 2020, he was more or less told to beat it after getting blown out in South Carolina, a victim of---and party to---a highly dysfunctional campaign. The embarrassing showing in the primary---in which he was a longshot anyway---led to a "all-hands-on-deck" order from the party potentates, with hatchet-man obama drawing the long straw for delivering the fatal whispering-in-the ear "advice" to Sanders. Maybe he would have been steamrolled on super tuesday also---but we'll never know.

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