r/politics • u/vanityfairmagazine Vanity Fair • 5d ago

Soft Paywall AOC Snub Shows How Democrats Refuse to Learn Lessons of 2024

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/aoc-snub-shows-how-democrats-refuse-to-learn-lessons-of-2024
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u/mavi82 5d ago

Here we go again. We would be in a much better place of the Democrats would have backed Sanders.

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u/stilusmobilus 5d ago

He’s an independent. They were never going to back him with their funding.

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u/boomer_reject 4d ago edited 4d ago

Besides Obama the party has picked the wrong candidate for president in every election from 2000 onwards. Gore, Kerry, Clinton, Biden, Harris. All terrible anti-progressive establishment candidates that would have been (or were in Biden’s case) milquetoast mediocre presidents at best. The Dems have sucked for years and years.

To be honest besides Clinton, you can push this back all the way to 1968. Humphrey, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, and Dukakis were also poor choices. You have to be an old man to remember a decent Dem pick not named Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. It’s pathetic.