It would have been a very different debate. Wallace would have been far more hostile to Sanders. Trump would have attacked on a different set of issues. There would very likely be a third-party candidate in the race - perhaps even on the stage - doing the Rational Centrist Neoliberal dance in a manner that wasn't garbled into nonsense by senility.
Nevermind the fact that - as the CNN Sanders / Cruz debate established a while back - Bernie isn't a stellar debater. He's got his message. He knows his facts. But he's not the kind of quick wit that can score meme-able moments and "win". He doesn't have a bunch of canned responses to Own The Libs. He doesn't have an army of corporate media flaks behind him to hype whatever he's saying.
Like, I'm sorry, but if Bernie was going to win he'd have won in the primaries. He didn't and for the same reason he wouldn't have won against Trump.
It would have been a very different debate. Wallace would have been far more hostile to Sanders. Trump would have attacked on a different set of issues. There would very likely be a third-party candidate in the race - perhaps even on the stage - doing the Rational Centrist Neoliberal dance in a manner that wasn't garbled into nonsense by senility.
Nevermind the fact that - as the CNN Sanders / Cruz debate established a while back - Bernie isn't a stellar debater. He's got his message. He knows his facts. But he's not the kind of quick wit that can score meme-able moments and "win". He doesn't have a bunch of canned responses to Own The Libs. He doesn't have an army of corporate media flaks behind him to hype whatever he's saying.
Like, I'm sorry, but if Bernie was going to win he'd have won in the primaries. He didn't and for the same reason he wouldn't have won against Trump.
Yeah, the attack would have been different. Heck, Trump came out attacking Biden for kneecapping Bernie.