Article: Bernie Sanders blasts Democratic Party following Kamala Harris loss
He’s not wrong. Aside from how he described Israel’s war, but everything else he said is correct.
The Democrats need to be making a broader appeal to the American people, not keep acting like it’s 2020 because Election Night showed that continually screaming “Trump is a fascist” isn’t going to work.
Yet the Democrats and leftists are doubling down. No surprise, honestly. And what’s sad is the number of leftists who are like “I guess we’re not ready for a female President”. No we’re perfectly ready for one. The parties just have to run the right candidate. Clinton wasn’t it. And Harris absolutely was not it.
You can’t run just any woman as a candidate for President and then scream “America isn’t ready for a woman President” when that candidate loses. Clinton and Harris both were anointed by the Democratic establishment, not chosen by the party’s voters. With Clinton being chosen by the party’s “super delegates”.
And worse for Harris was simply the fact she was never in a primary. And if the Democrats had sprung an emergency primary following Biden’s withdrawal, she likely would’ve lost.
But America absolutely is ready for a woman President. But, again, it needs to be the right candidate.
I’ll put it this way… if the Democrats had embraced Tulsi Gabbard in 2020 over Biden (and Sanders for the brief time he was the frontrunner until he got torpedoed by the establishment), we probably would have been RE-electing her this time around instead of Trump. And probably in a landslide reminiscent of Reagan’s landslide victory 40 years ago.
We absolutely can have a female President. But the parties need to run the right candidate. And in 4 years, sure the Republicans will likely run JD Vance. And if he picks Gabbard as his running mate, since she’s now a declared Republican, he’ll likely win. Unless the Democrats can find someone like Gabbard with broad appeal to the left and right and stop letting the identity politics rule their roost.
