West Virginia is hard on MAGA. Either this is every Dem in the state or MAGA is finally waking up.
I lived in MAGA country near WV in 2016. Folks there knew I wasn’t a red hat but when they found out I was a Bernie Bro they told me how they respected him for his consistency in hating the wealthy.
They hate billionaires, too. Hell, I almost got a bunch of rednecks to agree with socialism just by avoiding scary words.
They want the same things, they just haven’t been presented with it. I am convinced that if Bernie was the nominee he’d have carried West Virginia.
I tell this to everyone at every opportunity:
If Bernie was the DNC nominee in 2016 he would have beat Trump according to literally every single general poll:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2016/trump-vs-sanders
He had a ten point+ lead against Trump compared to Hillary. Hillary just polled better in the DNC primary. Funny then how the DNC made their constituents care more about who could win their primaries than who could win the actual presidential election.
That heavily favored Bernie winning against anyone.
Seven hospitals are expected to shut down in the state as a result of the law’s Medicaid cuts, and 84,000 West Virginians will lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, according to estimates.
If this doesn’t do it what will?
Why would Democrats do this to WV?!
The Bernie-Trump pipeline is a thing. MAGA is fueled by social and economic uncertainty, and unlike the Dem establishment Bernie actually offers solutions to those things. The problem is that solutions from the left are incessantly shut down by the establishment (with little resistance from progressive leaders) while “solutions” from the right are embraced by it (and when they aren’t, the right actually fights to change that), so undereducated people in red states see two realistic choices, one that has solutions for their troubles and one that doesn’t. My point being that plenty of Republican voters only vote red because the blue side offers them exactly nothing, not because they want an all-white ethnostate. Theoretically that group has no reason to hate Bernie.
two realistic choices, one that has solutions for their troubles and one that doesn’t.
One that claims to have a solution. They’re still dumb for not realising Republicans don’t give a shit about their troubles and their supposed solutions would only make things worse.
Anything to downplay people being excited about progressives.
“Sometimes I am attacked by my opponents for being far-left, fringe, out of touch with where America is,” said Sanders. “Actually, much of what I talk about is exactly where America is… You are living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and if we had good policy and the courage to take on the billionaire class, there is no reason that every kid in this country could not get an excellent higher education, regardless of his or her income. That is not a radical idea.”
☝️ 100% this. Democrats, you want a candidate that will win? Stop focusing so much on what your donors want you to do, and start focusing on what your country needs you to do.
The flight of ‘moderate Republican’ donor base from the GOP to the Dems over the last ~8 years has truly metastasised into a cancer.
All of the people left and immediately continued voting for Republicans. The end.
Or they voted for Jim Justice/Babydog.
Sanders would have beat Drumpf the first time and the second time but the Dems are so bought out by billionaires and lobbyists that they are just as savage as the GOP!
Bernie for President 2028! 💜
BuT hE’s A sOcIaLiSt!
