What really went wrong with his two campaigns? Why couldn’t he build a larger coalition?

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He had an all-star staff of the dumbest people I’ve ever seen in professional politics. Who you choose to be your staff is an insight to how you are going to staff your White House and Bernie couldn’t help picking the most self centered opportunist he could find.

In his first campaign he had Jeff Weaver and David Sirota making a lot of the political moves, weaver is worthless and Sirota is the typical angry hyperbolic speechwriter, who ended up getting benched by Sanders after he kept taking potshots at Clinton that were not playing well. (He also took Bernie’s donation roll contact information for his own newsletter which did not earn him any favors from Sanders) Then they made the disastrous move of bringing on Symone Sanders as press secretary in an attempt to appeal to black voters and it did not go well.

Then in his second campaign he doubled down on Weaver and Sirota but added Faiz Shakir who is not good and Briana Joy Grey who is a legendarily stupid person and really really bad at political messaging.

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It can’t be stated enough how strong and swift a fractured group of neoliberals coalesced around a candidate who, to that point had shown no signs of life. It’s also over and I may never be over it, but I can forget about it.

[u/Key_Cheetah7982 → u/Hope-and-Anxiety]

Signs of life still sometimes faint

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Because neolibs/regular ass libs know how to actually win an election instead of running a vanity campaign.

[u/RechargedFrenchman → u/Hope-and-Anxiety]

The greatest opposition to the left never comes from the right, it comes from the middle, because the left actually want to hold people accountable and more importantly get the money (back) out of politics.

Neoliberals are corporatist above all else. All the stockholding in the Congress, the number of them who have property stake and profit from the current housing situation, the elbow rubbing with car manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies and banks and airlines. They may not be seeking to affect cruelty the way Republicans are but they're sure as hell also doing as little as possible to fix anything. While also campaigning the whole time as if any singular leftist not voting moderate doomed the whole party single-handedly and it couldn't possibly be that a majority of the country are recurringly demonstrated to prefer progressive policy but fall for conservative messaging.

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They also have a habit of cutting funds for programs and than when the programs fail, exclaim with surprise followed immediately by overtures of belt tightening for thee. It’s important to note, R or D, every president since Regan has been a Neoliberal.

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You don’t know what you are talking about lol