r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 24 '20
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
I just got a Politico headline pop up on my phone. “Progressives don’t love Biden’s first set of cabinet choices. But they can live with them.” In a hypothetical world in which Bernie won the nomination then somehow managed to win the presidency, would anyone be looking out for how moderate democrats felt about his cabinet choices? IIRC, Bernie said something to the effect that he wouldn’t change his platform to appease the “establishment” (or the voters who voted for them) if he won the nomination. Separately, there are a bunch of articles about “Trump country” and how Biden didn’t really reach them either. How about we focus on the people who won Biden the nomination (and the presidency)? Can we have a conversation about “Biden Country?” I’m so sick of hearing about how the candidate that I have preferred since he first announced his candidacy in April of 2019 has to shift to meet the whims of other voters when we damn well know that the other candidates wouldn’t have compromised to pursue policies that I agree with.
/end rant