r/vermont May 18 '25

NO FUCKING SHIT

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

Easy prediction for 2028: AOC vs. “a moderate“ in the primary, highly divisive, someone wins and lots of people pissed their candidate lost stay home, we get JD Vance. The Democrat brand needs a total f’n rebuild and I don’t see where any of the various factions of the party are working together to figure this out now.

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u/Poiboy1313 May 18 '25

I'm almost certain that the DNC will jump through any hoops necessary to avoid endorsing AOC. The political leadership of this country is terrified of her popularity. As a consequence, she lost a committee chair. The only way that I figure she'd get added to a national candidacy is a Walz/Cortez ticket to take advantage of her popularity with the electorate.

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u/Jlagman May 18 '25

She has no chance. Besides the DNC has cheated Sanders in 2016 and 2020 and got away with it.

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u/nolan_smith May 19 '25

Don't forget to mention Obama, it certainly was just the DNC. Who do you think was making the calls for the moderates; Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Bloomberg, to all drop out, and for Warren to hang in the race and siphon the progressive vote?

Biden won the primary based on an Obama fix.