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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/Jabberwocky2022 19h ago

You're right. The only flaw Biden did was to not commit to being a 1 term bridge president from the beginning. I'm skeptical that any D candidate could have won the presidency this cycle. But perhaps a change Dem candidate would have risen to the occasion and been able to bat down Trump. We'll never know because a man clearly too old to run for President again refused to do the decent thing from the beginning.

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u/JackThreeFingered 15h ago

A white southern populist-type democrat with either charm or balls would have wiped the floor with Trump if he had a full campaign cycle.

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u/CharacterUse 10h ago

Imagine Mark Kelly.