can we please not do this
even before the allegation, watching this pandemic unfold, the responses unfold, and knowing we were nominating someone who's sole appealing point is a "return to normalcy" depressed me
but let's not do this bullshit "see, HERE's your guy" thing, where we go full hindsight bias mode, and falsely reward ourselves for somehow "knowing" Biden was a rapist and falsely penalize others for not
oh stop it
if you look at the thrust of the primary, you see this: Bernie is the front runner for a hot minute, does well in all the initial states, is polling well in later states, seems likely to runaway with it come Super Tuesday; the combination of Biden's impressive win in SC, candidates dropping out and endorsing him, and 100 billion worth of top notch pro-Biden media strongly signals to otherwise unsettled voters, hey, here's the guy to unify us and lead us to victory over Trump!!!; he makes a miraculous comeback, kills it on Super Tuesday, becomes all but the presumptive nominee, and unsurprisingly rides that momentum to massive primary win after massive primary win; even after all that, though, Bernie won CA along the way and is still in this, mathematically speaking
what that amounts to is that, because of a combination of factors, voters ended up galvanizing around Biden early on, thinking he'd be the best person to defeat Trump - it does not amount to Bernie, specifically, being rejected, considering the nomination was very much within his reach at one point
what happens, though, if the equation changes? if something happens that proves Biden isn't the best person to defeat Trump? or he drops out? yeah, especially in that latter case, Bernie is the obvious person to take the nomination
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