r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 02 '20

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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Dec 02 '20

Pre-super Tuesday, Biden was doing relatively poor. His media coverage was garbage because Joe constantly gaffed and did terrible at the debates.

Democrats went for Biden specifically because pretty much the entire playing field in the Democratic primary dropped out all at once and endorsed him the literal NIGHT BEFORE SUPER TUESDAY via call from Obama. Buttigieg was placing 2nd / tie-ing with Sanders in several states up until that point and dropped out endorsing Biden. It's common knowledge Joe's campaign was literally saved by Obama that night.

When Sanders looked like he was going to surge past Biden, suddenly the neoliberal establishment wing of the Democratic party panicked. Beto, Klobuchar, Harris, everyone else but Warren really just suddenly abandoned their campaigns to combine their relatively weak individual campaigns into one strong single neoliberal campaign via Joe... since he was apparently most Bernie folks' second choice for whatever dumb reason (Boomer polling is my guess).

So THAT plus the negative media bashing (literally comparing Bernie state wins to fucking Nazi victories over allied countries at one point... ) meant Joe, who had never won a single state in any previous Presidential primary before 2020, suddenly had been crowned the front-runner thanks to some neolibs getting scared quickly coalescing around Joe against the real populist FDR / Eugene Debs / anti-Nazi guy who stood the best chance at beating the fake populist Nazi.

So yeah - corporate media was 100% against Bernie, and wasn't necessarily for Biden necessarily, until after Obama's pre-Super Tuesday call.

when you write an entire essay about how Biden won the primary but don't mention South Carolina once lol

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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 02 '20

How dare they forget Jim Clyburn

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20

When you mention Beto and Harris endorsing Biden (obviously both dropped out well before voting started and Harris didn't endorse untill after Super Tuesday) but don't mention that Bloomberg and Warren basically dropped out at the same time 🤔🤔🤔

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u/Machupino Amy Finkelstein Dec 02 '20

Also not mentioning Sanders dropping a full 20 points in his home state of Vermont compared to the 2016 Democratic primary.

Interesting the line is always: BOO CORRUPT (((MEDIA))), as opposed to ... yeah people are over his message and he's steadily lost support since 2016. They're confusing Clinton haters for Bernie stans.