• thoro@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    This was a referendum on neoliberal business as usual and they lost, hard.

    You would have thought people in this country would have learned that in 2016 when Trump ran against NAFTA and with a populist message that, yes, used immigrants as a scapegoat.

    But the neoliberal elite of the party continue to show nothing but disdain for populism, evidenced by how they treated Bernie and choosing candidates who literally run on nothing “fundamentally” changing.

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      20 days ago

      Yeah, this is exactly what I’m saying. You don’t win a fucking popularity contest by choosing to ignore 80% of voters or tell them that “we wouldn’t do anything differently” after 50y of wage stagnation during a housing crisis.