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2016 Postmortem

demwing

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2. "One of Obama's great, tragic errors"

Reply to portlander23 (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 08:03 AM

Oct 2015

"was in demobilizing a coalition that had built up during that campaign and moving inside the beltway."

And that was his own coalition. If we let Hillary win the WH, Bernie's movement will be forgotten in less than a heartbeat. What is her incentive to follow the progressives? She hasn't in the past, and once elected, her rhetoric will be reduced to "Bernie? Bernie who?"

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The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel on Bernie Sanders [View all] portlander23 Oct 2015 OP

Hillary is only "moving to the left" for campaign purposes. n/t djean111 Oct 2015 #1

^^^ This ^^^ cantbeserious Oct 2015 #3

"One of Obama's great, tragic errors" demwing Oct 2015 #2

I think one of Obama's great, tragic errors was in demobilizing a coalition that had built up during wilsonbooks Oct 2015 #4