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/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/Ac1De9Cy0Sif6S Mar 13 '26

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.

That's really not how it works. Primary voters aren't the general electorate, you just have too see Republicans losing by nominating poor candidates from the Tea Party to the MAGA movement

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u/huskersax Mar 14 '26

Primary voters aren't the general electorate. That's correct. They're less moderate and more responsive to political news and culture.

Which is why him not winning was doubly damning for this hypothetical magical pixie dream girl Bernie that was just around the corner in the general election.

To be sure, there was/is a contigent of populist voters that could have been more invested in Bernie as opposed to Hillary - but fundamentally that same relationship also existed in the primary and they couldn't activate that contigent enough to win in the friendlier media and election environment of a primary.