• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    If we could do that Bernie would have won the primary easily.

    The insane right’s electoral strategy is to threaten primaries, not the general.

    Threatening the primaries makes you a credible electoral threat who’s positions should be considered and if possible appealed to.

    Threatening the general makes you a moron who obviously cares more about feeling validated than you do about achieving any policy goals since you’re literally declaring your intent to hand the contest to the guy who’s even less likely to give you anything you want.

    • hark@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      There was the uncommitted movement for the democratic primaries, but democrats screamed and shat their pants in anger over people daring to challenge party unity. Reminder that these uncommitted votes were just to send the message that biden should stop supporting genocide which should really be a no-brainer and even then democrats threw a fit. The political parties have their primary processes clamped down and completely controlled. If trump threatened the moneyed interests at all, he would’ve been shut down during the party primaries like Bernie was.