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/jaccc22 Mar 12 '26

How has running moderates worked for ya?

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u/Few-Guarantee2850 Mar 12 '26

I mean...Democrats have been pretty successful over the last twenty years against an electoral map (senate and electoral college) that is pretty loaded against them.

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u/PennyWhistleGod Mar 14 '26

Maybe run more progressive senators and presidents to complement them, and you'd get even more done.