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Democrats should have listened to Bernie Sanders, historians say (www.newsweek.com)

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Summary

Historians suggest Democrats might have fared better against Donald Trump by embracing the economic issues championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, who has long pushed for a focus on “bread-and-butter” concerns for working-class voters.

Despite Kamala Harris’s progressive policies, polls showed Trump was favored on economic issues, particularly among working-class and Hispanic voters.

Historian Leah Wright Rigueur argued that Sanders’ messaging on economic struggles could be key for future Democratic strategies.

Sanders himself criticized the party for “abandoning” the working class, which he said has led to a loss of support across racial lines.

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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Huh, they spelled elected wrong.

Fucking Hillary Clinton, are you kidding me.

[-] JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I recently tried to explain to Lemmy that non-white working class voters see their social program as weird and off putting. I was downvoted to oblivion just for honestly relating an opinion from people these chronically online "allies" would never hear from, because they simply don't associate with seamstresses/fruit packers/construction site crossing guards etc. Not to mention the majority of these folks can't speak any language but English.

Tell my Chilean wife how she is going to make more money tomorrow than she did today and she will listen. Tell her she is a bigot because she believes that it takes more than "feeling like" a women to actually "be" a woman and she will stop listening. That is what just happened here.

I am from a different cultural context than her and I tend to believe what the people who study these issues have to say ie: gender affirming care saves lives. But to say that this one issue determines a persons entry or exclusion from our ever shrinking tent is political suicide, no matter how much we might wish that wasn't the case.

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[-] Balrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Al Gore too.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They should have listened to anyone that wasn't part of core in-group of the party.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah.

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I did vote for Bernie. I know. But this isn’t helping. Regret about stuff you didn’t do changes nothing. We can’t be Uncle Rico about this. What can we do now? Anything?

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[-] blazera@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

They did listen to him, he endorsed Kamala.

Progressive policies were on the ballot, they just werent endorsed by Bernie.

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