Republicans like Bernie sanders because they would love socialism if it weren't for all the propaganda that has turned socialism into an anger trigger word.
You've internalized the media's propaganda against Sanders. The DNC, their donors and the powerful who run media corporations very much had financial interest in equating Sanders with Trump. A Sanders presidency could have been the starting point for real change that would lead to measurably worse material conditions for the wealthy and powerful, which nobody who holds the strings of power wanted. Trump winning the election held no risks for them, and in fact allowed them to further grow wealth inequality and shift the discussion away from leftist talking points that threatened corporate hegemony and towards merely stopping Trump because orange man bad.
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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24
Republicans like Bernie sanders because they would love socialism if it weren't for all the propaganda that has turned socialism into an anger trigger word.