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Briahna Joy Gray on Twitter
“On this week's #HearTheBern, I spoke to one of the biggest voices on the online left: Natalie Wynn -- aka @ContraPoints! We talked the state of the race, and why she's so good at talking to people across the ideological spectrum. https://t.co/xsSwMrmsUi https://t.co/buV7usoM3d”
Extremely ironic that the Bernie campaign and Brie of all people would post this but it's good stuff.
Because Briahna does absolutely none of the things in the video on her own Twitter account. Their campaign is filled with hates liberals people who weren't actually interested in appealing to centrists during the campaign.
I made the thread because I agree with Contra's assessment and I'm glad that you do too!
Beyond the general antics of some of his online supporters, I'm talking about the focus on "the establishment" as a key part of Bernie's messaging as something that makes people feel defensive and turns them off from his campaign immediately. His campaign was fundamentally framed as an us vs them campaign without realizing that the average voter feels more aligned with the "them" in the analogy than the "us"
Making more overtures to the party's most dedicated constituency other than "I marched with MLK" would've been a nice start.
Not making your outreach conflict-based is a starter. AOC talked about this in a NYT inteview:
And I agree. The Latinx outreach especially among young voters in the West was amazing and I saw it brewing here myself over the last 4 years. These strategies unfortunately didnt help as much in primaries across the nation and outside of caucus elections. Bernie's policies are popular and his brand can definitely bring in disaffected voters but you have to win the primary first.
I don't think it has anything to do with Bernie's progressive agenda in this instance. Consider that the largest bloc of the primary are older voters who have tied their identity to the Democratic primary and the framing of "the establishment" by the campaign. Though I think beyond mere messaging the fact that the campaign did not make inroads with party leaders and figureheads was just as large of a detriment.
Not shivving them in the back in every moment you can get (coughFOREXAMPLEWARRENcough) and stop taking credit for what others has done the heavy lifting, to start.
