• @WhatIsThePointAnyway
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    496 months ago

    I wish he had been president back in 2016. Things would have been so much better.

    • @Boddhisatva
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      105 months ago

      Imagine how much differently the pandemic would have played out with Bernie at the helm. He wouldn’t have thrown away the existing pandemic response plan that the Obama administration had left behind. He wouldn’t have delayed the response to the emerging pandemic because it was primarily hitting areas governed by a different political party. He wouldn’t have had the federal government seizing PPE equipment from states and businesses in order to redistribute it where it would do him the most good politically.

      Millions of people would be alive today if Trump hadn’t been in charge when the pandemic hit.

    • FenrirIII
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      -115 months ago

      Sadly, not really. Most Democrats and all Republicans would have pushed back on his progressive policies. I don’t know which policies may have squeaked through, but it wouldn’t be enough.

      • 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚐
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        105 months ago

        This is the reality I came to. The establishment would have pulled out all the stops, guaranteed. If Bernie couldn’t take North Carolina, he certainly could not take Congress. Facts.