Personally, and this is some conspiracy shit, I firmly believe that the campaign they ran was specifically to remind the progressive wing that they have no juice with the DNC, not even to pretend towards policy, and that they would rather Republicans run buck wild than actually implement any kind of popular policy or even suggest popular policy changes. Their twitter base pushes it online everyday. When the enemy tells you what they are doing, listen.
I think it backfired on them though, as the progressive wing still has some level of popular support, and it has shown that they will still show up to vote locally but not for the presidential candidate, likely a level of voter discipline they weren’t expecting (hell that barely exists in the modern day).
Like, they expected they might lose, but not to lose in such an embarrassing fashion, which is why the story now is ‘actually it was as close as we could make it, the cards were stacked against her.’
Personally, and this is some conspiracy shit, I firmly believe that the campaign they ran was specifically to remind the progressive wing that they have no juice with the DNC, not even to pretend towards policy, and that they would rather Republicans run buck wild than actually implement any kind of popular policy or even suggest popular policy changes. Their twitter base pushes it online everyday. When the enemy tells you what they are doing, listen.
I think it backfired on them though, as the progressive wing still has some level of popular support, and it has shown that they will still show up to vote locally but not for the presidential candidate, likely a level of voter discipline they weren’t expecting (hell that barely exists in the modern day).
Like, they expected they might lose, but not to lose in such an embarrassing fashion, which is why the story now is ‘actually it was as close as we could make it, the cards were stacked against her.’