“Two stunning political moments in the past 24 hours: Gov. Cox's eloquent appearance just now...and Bernie Sanders's extraordinary statement yesterday.”
Because if there’s one thing the extreme right has been needing it’s an excuse from Bernie Sanders to act they way they do.
There’s no version of a message from Bernie that would sway the extreme right. His message managed to get right wingers to endorse and share a message that cited the following events as unacceptable:
January 6th. If you had told me that right wingers would be sharing a message from Bernie Sanders denouncing January 6th as unacceptable, I would have thought you insane.
Paul Pelosi
Governer Whitmer
Melissa Hortman
Josh Shapiro
Even among the incidents where a right wing figure was the target, most were committed by a right wing perpetrator or apolitical motives, with only one or two of them credibly left-wing in origin.
So you have an audience of conserveritives that are not “ride or die” with MAGA but might have considered the Nick Fuentes types a bunch of useful idiots that can advance their perspective and be a risk only toward the people they don’t like anyway. I think this is just the event and message for those folks to realize just how dangerous these extremists are to them that they try to weaponize on their behalf. Maybe it can’t work, but a message from Bernie Sanders coming out hard against the right wouldn’t have done anything vaguely productive.
Left of center to far left have become too hobbled by perfect ideology. Towards the center, they refuse to entertain more progressive ideas (fairness this has been going on far longer). The more progressive factions, refuse to compromise.
Because if there’s one thing the extreme right has been needing it’s an excuse from Bernie Sanders to act they way they do.
There’s no version of a message from Bernie that would sway the extreme right. His message managed to get right wingers to endorse and share a message that cited the following events as unacceptable:
Even among the incidents where a right wing figure was the target, most were committed by a right wing perpetrator or apolitical motives, with only one or two of them credibly left-wing in origin.
So you have an audience of conserveritives that are not “ride or die” with MAGA but might have considered the Nick Fuentes types a bunch of useful idiots that can advance their perspective and be a risk only toward the people they don’t like anyway. I think this is just the event and message for those folks to realize just how dangerous these extremists are to them that they try to weaponize on their behalf. Maybe it can’t work, but a message from Bernie Sanders coming out hard against the right wouldn’t have done anything vaguely productive.
Great take.
Left of center to far left have become too hobbled by perfect ideology. Towards the center, they refuse to entertain more progressive ideas (fairness this has been going on far longer). The more progressive factions, refuse to compromise.