Burnwinter wrote:
El Genio de Oviedo wrote:
When racist nationalism is the only alternative to the status quo, it cannot be surprising if it wins.
Obama still has a very decent favorability rating on the states and Trump flipped a lot of working class counties in the Rust Belt. He even won a larger percentage of the Latino vote than Romney.
In short, I think this election was winnable for a robust leftist, but we got the candidate of Wall Street, and it's backfired drastically for the Dems
Think it might have been winnable for a different kind of left-wing outsider. I question to some extent the received wisdom that Sanders would've done better, at the very least a more detailed argument is needed to support that conclusion.
I'd refer you to the progress of someone like Jeremy Corbyn in the UK for an idea of what would've happened to Sanders in the main event, had he secured the nomination. We would've had months of fearmongering about his economic plans rammed down our throats by this point and Trump would probably be being painted as a rational alternative by a cohort of the press corps.
TBf Corbyn has been fucked over in similar ways from his own party. If Labour got behind him and he ran he'd have a good shot at beating the current mess the Tories are in.
I'm with Genio. You can't beat the extreme right from a little less to the right. You have to fight them from the left.
