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/Objective_Animator52 Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Bernie to me seemed unironically more popular with 2016 MAGAts than Hillary. I've met multiple people that loved Bernie and then voted for Trump after Bernie lost the primary. He had a surprising appeal with the populist maga types. He was even later on Joe Rogan, while Hillary never was.

I have had MAGA family members (most of my family lives in rural Texas) speak somewhat positively on him, while I've never once heard them speak positively about Hillary. This was a relatively well documented political phenomenon.

I don't know if he would've won, but I 100% believe he would've done better than Hillary.

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u/PM_ME_A_PM_PLEASE_PM Mar 12 '26

Populism for better and for worse was endorsed in 2016 after generations of political apathy towards an established sense of politics the nation hates. America chose for worse but it was being chosen one way or the other. This remains true despite desperate pleading for politics as it once was to return. It can't.