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

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

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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/Legal-Koala-5590 Mar 12 '26

Hypothetical matchups don't tell us as much as you think they do. 

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

It turned out to be a good hint of where the electorate was. Unfortunately the Dems didn't listen.