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We recently wrote about many of the reasons Bernie Sanders lost the 2020 Democratic Primary and one of the most prominent reasons for his defeat was his reluctance to be much tougher on his rivals, which they were with him. Sanders sustained a slew of attacks from his competitors in the Democratic field, most of the attacks were based on fear-mongering about the high price for his policies. Virtually every candidate attacked Sanders on the cost of Medicare for All, using the 'huge cost' of such a policy to scare voters into being against the policy, consistently screaming "it costs $30 trillion!" The price tag is actually somewhere around $17 trillion, also conveniently left out are the facts that this is the cost over ten years and that Medicare for All actually costs substantially less than the current American healthcare system. Medicare for All is estimated to save anywhere from $303 billion to $2 trillion over the course of the next ten years, if implement...

According to the RCP polling averages , Joe Biden still maintains a five point polling lead over incumbent President Donald Trump. However, since this time last year, Joe Biden's polling advantage is slowly crumbling and we're still six months away from the election. Biden, before the primary even started, was seen by many within the Democratic Party to be the best bet to defeat Donald Trump and continue the Obama legacy, once again going with the same strategy that lost them the election in 2016. A few polls were conducted over the last couple of years, asking people whether they would vote for Joe Biden or Donald Trump and the results were very favourable for Biden, routinely coming out fourteen points ahead, with a high of eighteen points ahead of Donald Trump in a hypothetical matchup. As we arrived at the tailend of 2019, Biden's numbers were slightly worse. A Rasmussen poll conducted in September suggested that Donald Trump was actually four points ahead (47-4...

MSNBC's "The Last Word" host Lawrence O'Donnell describes his politics as a "practical European socialist", which essentially boils down to being a nordic-style social democrat, usually in favour of a mixed economy with a generous welfare state and has defended his positions on MSNBC news shows that typically frown upon stepping outside the neoliberal bubble. O'Donnell is no progressive hero in the context of american politics, sometimes scolding progressive politicians whenever they mildly criticize the Democratic Party, such as when Bernie Sanders tweeted about having to take on the Democratic establishment as well as Republicans, O'Donnell decided to concern troll Sanders by claiming that the Democratic establishment wouldn't pass Sanders' proposals if he wasn't nice to them. Over the course of the last few months an old video of O'Donnell explaining how to move the Democratic Party further left and how the party treats the p...

Unless someone is able to invent a way to travel back in time, preferably to around the time of the Nevada Caucus, we will unfortunately never experience a Bernie Sanders presidency. A variety of reasons were offered for Sanders' surprising exit from the 2020 Democratic Primary, including the ridiculous claims that his campaign staff, particularly Briahna Joy Gray and David Sirota, were primarily responsible or the laughable assertion that Sanders didn't portray himself as "patriotic" enough, supposedly Sanders not wearing an American flag pin is one of the main reasons for his defeat. However, there are more rational reasons for Sanders defeat. The most prevalent reason offered was Sanders reluctance to get dirty and push back, much like his previously mentioned campaign staff did. Throughout the primary Sanders annoyed his supporters as he would constantly refer to Joe Biden as "my good friend, Joe" after arguing that Joe Biden's policies wer...