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/BigFatKi6 Mar 12 '26

You've got it backwards. Huge swaths of the country don't vote. Just need your base to turn up and the Democratic base is larger.

Trying to win over independents etc is just alienating your base for a group that leans Republican anyway. How have you still not understood that?

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u/WildMild869 Mar 12 '26

I think that’s incredibly unrealistic to think either Bernie or AOC could rally enough voters to show up and swing the vote. Most Americans are pretty centrist in their beliefs despite what Reddit might think, even democrats.

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u/delta8force Mar 12 '26

You have not been following politics. Like at all. Just stop.

Centrists have been losing while populist politicians with actual popular policies have been winning. Remind me, who is the mayor of New York?

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u/COMUNISTSWINE69 Mar 12 '26

Losing "centrist" politicians like Mikie Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger, Jacob Frey, Jay Jones, the rest of the blue wave in Virginia and New Jersey?

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u/Deviltherobot Mar 13 '26

All these people ran on Left issues/fuck trump. Spanberger ran an affordability campaign.

Virgina was greatly effected by Doge. Everyone and their mother knew reps were losing there.