A Rational Reason to Hope Biden Loses
If he wins without the Left, progressives like Bernie and AOC will be stripped of all power.
Berniecrats who still support Bernie should do everything they can to oppose Biden.
Here’s why:
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, when the centrist Democrat Hillary Clinton had failed to beat Trump, the Democratic Establishment famously refused to do a post mortem to find out WHY they lost. Officially, their theory of the case was that the Russians had helped Trump win, and that the Trump base that elected him were an irredeemable group of racists and white supremacists anyway.
But in the backrooms and quiet hallways of power in DC, the Democrats knew differently. They knew that their failure to attract Bernie supporters may have cost them the election.
That is why they reacted to the loss by making Bernie part of the “Senate Democratic Leadership.” On November 16, just days after the massive electoral loss, Bernie Sanders was named “chairman of outreach” during a closed-door Senate Democratic caucus meeting.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said Sanders was brought into the leadership to better represent the different factions of the Democratic caucus in decision-making.
“We want to expand on that, and he will be reaching out to all…
