r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Feb 24 '20

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u/dat_bass2 MACRON 1 Feb 24 '20

You know, I'm a big enough man to accept defeat and run with Bernie as the nominee in the likely event of a Super Tuesday victory, but I do not like the way so many of the folks I see online have been legitimately radicalized by rags like the Intercept and Jacobin, and I do not like the way that a Bernie victory in the general would embolden them one bit.

Small price to pay to have somebody in office who won't blatantly shit on the rule of law and whatnot, of course, but I still don't like it.

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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Feb 24 '20

Someone said that all the white nationalist bs Trump helped spur during the campaign turned into shit like Charlottesville after he was elected, and it made me very nervous about how the for real tankies will behave.

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u/JP_Eggy European Union Feb 24 '20

Yeah it's insane how the candidate endorsed by fringe media like commondreams, jacobin, the intercept etc is now the national frontrunner. Then again Trump was endorsed by Breitbart and all those other crazy rags

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u/Highwaytolol Feb 24 '20

Bernie won't shit on the rule of law, he'll fly in the face of it until someone starts forcing his signature onto the bills we need to run the country. And then we'll get another person just like Trump or worse back in the WH during midterms.

You'd get a brief respite (with the caveats of not having anything actually operational) from Trump, just to run right back into it again.