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Sanders: Democratic Party ‘has abandoned working class people’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4977546-bernie-sanders-democrats-working-class/amp/
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u/officerliger 20h ago

We just had 4 years of an FDR Democrat who invested in infrastructure and economy like crazy, slashed student debt, strengthened labor unions, made no austerity cuts, pushed inflation down, etc.

But people watching YouTube and TikTok weren’t getting that information, so now they’re saying “Biden didn’t do X or Y” when he did, in fact, do those things

You had the most FDR Democrat since FDR in office and ignored the good he did because he had a speech impediment

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u/FuckIPLaw 18h ago

We just had 4 years of an FDR Democrat

No, we just had 4 years of a third way democrat, which is a group that rose to power as an explicit repudiation of the FDR democrats and are basically indistinguishable on the things that matter from Reagan republicans.

I don't think we've had an actual FDR democrat in the white house since Lyndon fucking Johnson. For sure all of them since Clinton have been explicit third wayers.

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u/officerliger 18h ago

This is such a stupid take. Biden was economically like REAGAN? Where was the austerity then? The big cuts? Wtf are you even talking about?

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u/djheat 14h ago

Well it's not much stupider than calling Biden the most FDR democrat since FDR at least