All Along The Watchtower
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« on: February 12, 2020, 03:23:14 PM » |
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Because he's simultaneously become more tied to the post-Obama/Trump-era Democratic Party and pulled a lot of cargo cult bourgeois socialists into or around his campaign. Meanwhile, other candidates have adopted some of his policy proposals and made a joke out of them.
The latter was not as much of an issue in 2016 and the former was even less so; "Bernie's not even a Democrat!" was a plus for him among many voters when he was running against the Clinton machine.
Also, the fact that he's approaching 80 (he literally had a heart attack!) is not going to go away as a concern.
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