I think this is all true but in terms of the electeds, progressives tend to be more of a team player. I have many critiques of Bernie and his dogshit character judgment, but he’s no Manchin who’s going around telling everyone to vote for Republicans

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And his awful staffers, many of whom really did become wreckers, some of whom have gone full fascist.

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I mean he was still going on Rogan to cry about the Dems rigging elections against him after 2024. Most of the issues with Bernie is the "off the court" shit that can depress Democratic sentiment among low propensity voters.

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the ur-example of Bernie 2016 is really notable to me because Bernie actually did a lot of rallies for Hillary and supported her! And he did the same for Biden and Harris. I think there’s just resentment that he even ran against her at all instead of letting her be coronated

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nobody wants to hear it but the only real “blue no matter who” types are progressives the defectors are always, always, the “centrists” and this is true when it comes to passing legislation too

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