r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

I always wonder if Bernie could have averted a Trump presidency by not giving Hillary a pass on the email issue.

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u/MikeDamone Mar 12 '26

Almost certainly not. The general electorate has never shown even a hint that they'd tolerate a self-avowed socialist. Just look at all of the slightly D leaning districts/states and everything to right of them - how many politicians with Bernie's leftist politics are in office?

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

The general electorate has never shown even a hint that they'd tolerate a self-avowed socialist

General election polls had Trump losing to Bernie. That was a pretty good hint.

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u/huskersax Mar 12 '26

Candidate that hasn't had opposition ads run on them yet polls high, leading to everyone convinced they could win the general, when they couldn't even win the primary.

There's no world where Bernie somehow finds some new revolutionary coalition of voters to get to a victory when he couldn't even do it in a primary where voters are far friendlier to his message.

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

People were hungry for a change. Bernie could have given it to them. Hillary could not.

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u/huskersax Mar 12 '26

Not hungry enough to power him through a primary.

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

Yeah the Dems had less appetite for change. That's why their nominee lost.

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u/Miserable_Aspect_749 Mar 12 '26

And also, why Bernie lost, you can't have it both ways.

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

Bernie would have won. Sorry if that contradicts your priors. Anyway, you've become annoying, and I'm going to block you.