2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win. [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)Bernie's economic message did resonate with POC; there's a reason why he still tied with millennial POC, and held what, 25% of the black vote after all that? Had he woven minority outreach into his campaign from the start, he COULD have won; Black people are well aware of how the banks/capitalism/Wall Street fuck us over. I'm on the far left BECAUSE I am black, and a far left message could have resonated if he had put some thought into crafting it.
It's not like we trusted Hillary from the beginning, but she made the effort to talk to us and Bernie didn't and it's a DAMN shame because he would have won the primary and probably the general election if he did (And there's a lot of "Establishment" you can rail against that speaks to what black people go through - corrupt police departments? Voter suppression via the Koch's et al? That's where "millionaires and billionaires" can resonate". Gentrification?)
I don't blame him for the electoral result, but I do get annoyed at the whole "DNC rigged primary against him" like all those minorities voting for Hillary don't matter.