- betelgeuse [comrade/them]·2 years ago
- Dems media would be cautiously optimistic for about a day or two. Then they would constantly criticize him for being too extreme. Fox would pick up on this and run stories of CNN/MSNBC shitting on Bernie and saying "Well if even they know socialism is coming, we're in trouble"
- Immediate stock market crash. Capital strike from several industries. All blamed on economic policies that haven't passed. Economists would come out to validate it.
- Dem legislators would start having open fights with Bernie in the media
- By 2022 they would be making the mid-terms a referendum on socialism and restoring sanity
- If he made it to 2024 without being shot, he would be challenged by several Dems who would then collapse around the typical choice.
- Hillary would get her own show on MSNBC