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Democrats should have listened to Bernie Sanders, historians say (www.newsweek.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21778444

Summary

Historians suggest Democrats might have fared better against Donald Trump by embracing the economic issues championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, who has long pushed for a focus on “bread-and-butter” concerns for working-class voters.

Despite Kamala Harris’s progressive policies, polls showed Trump was favored on economic issues, particularly among working-class and Hispanic voters.

Historian Leah Wright Rigueur argued that Sanders’ messaging on economic struggles could be key for future Democratic strategies.

Sanders himself criticized the party for “abandoning” the working class, which he said has led to a loss of support across racial lines.

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The clip was uploaded to X, formerly Twitter, where it went viral receiving 6.5 million views and 70,000 likes.

... And yet despite that this article is full of hyperlinks to the news site's topic pages, an embedded video barely related to the title at the top, and an embedded tweet also only loosely related, there is no link to this video of the titular historian's words, how frustrating. They quote two brief statements:

Rigueur said, "One of the things that Bernie Sanders has been saying since at least 2014 has been about how the Democratic party, if it wants to keep these coalitions, needs to talk about bread-and-butter issues. It needs to talk about politics."

Rigueur said that it's not that "cultural politics don't matter," but that both areas need to be a part of the Democrats' platform.

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