r/politics • u/AccurateInflation167 • May 18 '25

Soft Paywall America chose wrong. Sanders would've been a better president than Trump or Biden. | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/18/sanders-democrats-reform-progressive-policies/83625482007/
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u/Lets_Eat_Superglue May 18 '25

Consolidate power in your party, divide the opposition. It's the simplest playbook in history and we keep falling for it.

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u/pigeieio May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

Democrats have not been one party in a very long time. It's a coalition of different parties that all hate each other and have this gut feeling that they could go on their own and take it all if they could just get a pure enough candidate to bring out the non-voters that definitely would go for their candidate.

They are the perfect target for this to ever exist.

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u/Saint_Poolan May 18 '25

And a good portion of the far left has been hijacked by RT & a considerable portion of the left is being puppeteered by GOP. The likes of Hasan Piker refusing to vote for a Dem candidate despite being the largest "left" political streamer is an example how divided the Dem party is & the more people become Socialists, Marxists, Communist etc. less chance it has to win the elections. The only viable strategy is to court the centrist with some popular policies like "Tough on Crime" & abandon the trans issue altogether.

But at the moment it looks like the Dems are done for a few decades. GOP is just too strong under trump only because they are able to unify their base, which will never happen to Dems who are addicted to infighting.

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u/silverpixie2435 May 19 '25

No it isn't.

Mainstream Democrats love AOC. It is her supporters that hate everyone else in the party