Columnist slams Bernie Sanders: Dems did what you asked -- and got 'no electoral benefit'

[JohnSJ]

"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) let fly recriminations against the Democratic Party following the 2024 election loss, accusing Vice President Kamala Harris and the party at large of abandoning working-class voters — an accusation that didn't sit well with an MSNBC columnist.

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But this is all complete nonsense, wrote Michael A. Cohen — and it completely ignores what happened in the election.

"During his nearly four years in office, President Joe Biden was arguably the most pro-union president since FDR. He literally walked a picket line, supported union organizing efforts, increased funding for the National Labor Relations Board. He infused $36 billion into the Teamsters Union pension plan (an act that Sanders praised)," wrote Cohen. Then there was his infrastructure and technology investments, which stand to create thousands of new jobs, on top of student loan relief for community college graduates, overtime pay reforms, and numerous other pro-worker policies.

Sanders and other critics may counter that Biden and Harris failed to communicate these policies, wrote Cohen — but "That’s not true either. As the New Republic’s Greg Sargent pointed out earlier this week, the Harris campaign poured $200 million into ads that focused on her economic message. In fact, she outspent the Trump campaign by around $70 million on ads about the economy" — complete with pledges to fight corporate greed and price-gouging, make housing affordable, and give working people tax relief.

https://www.rawstory.com/bernie-sanders-harris/

[paleotn]

1. I wasn't too happy with Bernie's take either. It's anger talking and I get it.

But to be honest, I don't think even Bernie's message would have resonated with white working class wankers. So there's that. What I do know is we better cut out the circular firing squad shit and fast. There's a ton of work to be done and it's going to take all of us working together in lock step. That's our only hope right now.

[Lulu KC]

6. And the timing!

What is with the timing of all these people?

[sheshe2]

2. OFFS!

[pnwmom]

3. Me, too! Thanks for sharing this!

[pnwmom]

4. Maybe this is the time to remind everyone that Bernie Sanders is NOT a Democrat.

So the rule about supporting Dems shouldn't apply to him when he's slamming the Democratic V.P.

[ColinC]

5. Bernie asked Dems to keep Biden in.

They forced him out anyways.

[radical noodle]

9. Bernie is not a Democrat

Yet you think he should dictate what the party should do?

[ColinC]

10. Yet hes more loyal to the Democratic candidate than most Dems apparently

What's that tell you?

[Orrex]

12. It tells us that you're making a dubiously supported claim.

[yourout]

11. I don't think we were going to be able to beat Trump without a full primary season and even then...

It would have been an uphill battle.
Maybe had Joe not ran at all someone would have jumped to the forefront but I'm not sure it would have mattered.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Precisely, the OP is an argument against itself. Logic dictates if Biden was great for the working class,

and the Democrats forced him out, which indeed was an argument that *rump made, then ergo the Democrats were against the working class.

His dropping out so late in the process also undercut the Democrats best argument against the Republicans in not respecting democracy, again an argument which *rump made.

Had Biden decided not to run much sooner and we had an open primary, that wouldn't have been an issue, but by then fourteen million+ Americans had voted for him.

[Susan Calvin]

7. I really wish more people were thinking before speaking.

I probably wouldn't do any better myself if I had anybody other than my friends listening to me, but then again I don't have anybody other than my friends listening to me.

[uponit7771]

8. Yep

[Cha]

14. " but "That's not true either. As the New Republic's Greg Sargent pointed out earlier this week, t"

Sanders and other critics may counter that Biden an the Harris campaign poured $200 million into ads that focused on her economic message. Id Harris failed to communicate these policies, wrote Cohen — but "That’s not true either. As the New Republic’s Greg Sargent pointed out earlier this week,n fact, she outspent the Trump campaign by around $70 million on ads about the economy" — complete with pledges to fight corporate greed and price-gouging, make housing affordable, and give working people tax relief.

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Oh & Sanders "Underperformed Kamala in Vermont".

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Mahalo, John for this news.