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Reminding myself to cut line whenever I find myself (A) explaining that winning an election is an an action and not a default stance and (B) that there isn't actually some giant bloc of "diehard Bernie fans" that swings them.
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That last one is fake. Sorry. It's imaginary. I can't argue with it because it's fantasy.
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Especially if we're talking about "diehard fans" because the Clinton people seriously lost their shit and they are going to lose 2020 for everyone.
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Serious Sanders supporters weren't swing voters. They were trying to save the Dem party, they weren't on some sort of fence, I don't care if you met one former Ron Paul kid who liked him and then voted Trump when the party greased Clinton in.
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@Zero_Democracy Seriously, most of the "Bernie to Trump" crowd were people who were planning to vote for Trump all along and just used "I supported Bernie before they sent in Clinton!" as an excuse to not be dropped by everyone they knew after the fact.
source: knowing several of these fuckers who went ahead and slammed Bernie over his proposed policies only months later
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@Thaminga And they're a TINY margin. Most Sanders supporters who were alienated by the Clinton partisans to the point of not voting Dem voted green, so there's a number for you. Much less than, say, the Clinton campaign lost not campaigning in swing states, whoops.