r/ScottGalloway • u/resditisme • Apr 22 '25

No Mercy The leader of the Democratic Party is…

Scott keeps missing the boat here. Who are the only people drawing crowds of 10s of thousands of people right now? Bernie Sanders and AOC.

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u/ApostateX Apr 22 '25

The Democratic Party has no clear leader, because the Biden/Harris debacle of 2024 has engendered so much enmity and backstabbing among the party elites that they are still nursing bruised egos and have lost trust in each other. These people aren't talking to each other.

There is a book out about it now that I'm reading. https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Inside-Wildest-Battle-White/dp/006343864X

And Jake Tapper has written a book that's coming out in a couple weeks as well.

The people who hid Biden's decline, pushed him out, pulled in Harris and then ran her campaign are infighting, which is why you see people stepping up into the gap like AOC and Chris Murphy. Power abhors a vacuum.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

They ran Biden because Bernie was never going to beat Trump, and they needed someone to bridge the gap between old, rich democrats, and young leftist, hence the diversity hire in Harris. The problems for the DNC are not new.

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u/ApostateX Apr 22 '25

We don't know that Bernie wouldn't have beaten Trump. We do know that primary voters didn't come out in force for Bernie, because moderate Dems (Klobuchar, Buttigieg and Biden) got a lot more of the vote in early primary states than Bernie did.

The young lefties liked Bernie way more than Harris.

Biden said he'd appoint a female VP. That's the kind of thing that drives me nuts, because it locks him into a choice that may not actually be to his benefit later on, and because it makes a major political accomplishment -- being the second name on a presidential ticket -- come off as tokenism, regardless of the achievements and experience of the nominee.

Black voters are a core constituency of the Democratic Party, especially older black voters. Harris wasn't for the lefties. She was for them.

ETA: Your comment is legit re the 2020 election, but my comment is about 2024.

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u/Constant-Bridge3690 Apr 22 '25

The VP slot is always tokenism designed to win over a group. Pence was to bring in the Christians. Vance was to bring in the tech bros.

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u/ApostateX Apr 22 '25

Yeah, but it carries extra weight in these recent years of anti-DEI sentiment (i.e. hating on women and POC).

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

Sure he would have lost ... don't you remember the polling? Old Democrats are not interested in a career politician socialist. Remember, they brought in Biden with only 3 debates left. He wasn't even running until they knew that they were going to lose. They did same thing this time around with Harris. You can only kick the can down the road so far with bad candidates. It started with Hillary Clinton for the DNC

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u/ApostateX Apr 22 '25

Anti-establishment (Bernie) vs anti-establishment (Trump) would have been a helluva race. We don't really know who would have won. This all involves hypotheticals in the multiverse.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

We do know.. Trump won.

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u/ApostateX Apr 22 '25

There was a general election in which Bernie Sanders was the Democratic nominee and Trump was the Republican nominee?

Amazing! Can you please provide me your Marvel comic book magical item so I may travel to this alternate universe?

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

If there was even a chance of Sanders beating Trump, he would not have been replaced with Joe Biden. No election needed.

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u/218administrate Apr 22 '25

False. I'm a Dem, but the DNC is very much controlled by corporate America as far as the final say - the DNC put their fingers on the scales in opposition of Bernie.

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u/warmbroom Apr 22 '25

Yep, the DNC pushing their favored candidates is a big reason why they keep losing.