"Four short years ago, the entire left rallied behind Bernie Sanders and was devoted to expanding a straightforward working-class agenda to a populist audience."
You have a VERY different memory of this than I. Four years ago, the left fully fractured itself between Sanders and Warren, with neither candidate willing to step down and endorse the other at the end. If they had pledged from the beginning that whichever of them had less support would ultimately drop out and endorse the other, then their combined coalitions would have won. Instead, the Bernie Bros turned to smearing Warren with the most blatantly sexist lies, and Sanders refused to step in to refute them. So the two camps ended up at each other's throats when they should have been allied.
Warren was never a left-wing politician, she was a dedicated progressive democrat, but nothing more. Warren did endorse Biden if you don't recall. I think anyone committed to actual radical necessary social change would have endorsed Bernie a thousand times before endorsing Biden. It's extremely contradictory to say that Warren is left-wing while she endorsed a right-wing Democrat Joe Biden when she did not have to (Bernie did later because he lost). I think Warren pulled a lot of liberals who were sympathetic of certain social policy but didn't vibe with Bernie's rhetoric. I also think Bernie pulling "bro-cialists" who may have grown up right-wing but were convinced by his working-class agenda cannot be ignored. Bernie's campaign was more than just Democrats, he spent a ton of time over the years reaching out to rural and traditionally red areas. These are things that Warren did not do.
There is no blame you can put on Bernie for establishment media completely overblowing tiny pockets of social media which have no bearing on the real political stage, there just no evidence that this was a problem. Bernie advocated for women's rights his entire career. If you want to make that argument then fine, but why did Warren endorse Biden who openly advocated against abortion well into the 2000s and agrees with the Catholic church's view while merely tolerating Roe v. Wade?
Bernie 99% chance would've picked Warren as VP, I wouldn't characterize the left as divided- Warren is a social liberal who made a decision to bend the knee just like everyone else who pretended to care about medicare for all that election.
"Four short years ago, the entire left rallied behind Bernie Sanders and was devoted to expanding a straightforward working-class agenda to a populist audience."
You have a VERY different memory of this than I. Four years ago, the left fully fractured itself between Sanders and Warren, with neither candidate willing to step down and endorse the other at the end. If they had pledged from the beginning that whichever of them had less support would ultimately drop out and endorse the other, then their combined coalitions would have won. Instead, the Bernie Bros turned to smearing Warren with the most blatantly sexist lies, and Sanders refused to step in to refute them. So the two camps ended up at each other's throats when they should have been allied.
Hey, thank you for reading even if we disagree.
Warren was never a left-wing politician, she was a dedicated progressive democrat, but nothing more. Warren did endorse Biden if you don't recall. I think anyone committed to actual radical necessary social change would have endorsed Bernie a thousand times before endorsing Biden. It's extremely contradictory to say that Warren is left-wing while she endorsed a right-wing Democrat Joe Biden when she did not have to (Bernie did later because he lost). I think Warren pulled a lot of liberals who were sympathetic of certain social policy but didn't vibe with Bernie's rhetoric. I also think Bernie pulling "bro-cialists" who may have grown up right-wing but were convinced by his working-class agenda cannot be ignored. Bernie's campaign was more than just Democrats, he spent a ton of time over the years reaching out to rural and traditionally red areas. These are things that Warren did not do.
There is no blame you can put on Bernie for establishment media completely overblowing tiny pockets of social media which have no bearing on the real political stage, there just no evidence that this was a problem. Bernie advocated for women's rights his entire career. If you want to make that argument then fine, but why did Warren endorse Biden who openly advocated against abortion well into the 2000s and agrees with the Catholic church's view while merely tolerating Roe v. Wade?
Bernie 99% chance would've picked Warren as VP, I wouldn't characterize the left as divided- Warren is a social liberal who made a decision to bend the knee just like everyone else who pretended to care about medicare for all that election.