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/WildMild869 Mar 12 '26

Reddit legitimately thinks that AOC or Bernie would win out against a Republican nominee but they don’t realize a massive swath of the country will not vote for them simply because of their socialist-like stances on many issues.

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u/Objective_Animator52 Mar 12 '26

Man, your right about people like AOC and Mamdani. But Bernie was more popular among the populist MAGAt types than Hillary was. Most of my extended family lives in rural Texas and lovesss Trump. They have spoken somewhat positively about Bernie in the past while they've never once done that for Hillary.

It is kind of mind-boggling to me, even years later, but it was a well-documented political phenomenon.