‘Straight-up BS’: Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders’ election critique
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Sanders’ analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison

Amid Democratic mourning over the loss of the presidential election to Donald Trump, the party chair risked deepening already growing divisions by rebuking the leftwing Vermont senator Bernie Sanders for saying Democrats have “abandoned working class people”.

“This is straight up BS,” Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, said on Thursday. “[Joe] Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime – saved union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line.”

Harrison also defended Kamala Harris, the vice-president who lost the election to Trump, for proposing policies that “would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country”.

He said: “From the child tax credits, to [$]25k for a down payment for a house to Medicare covering the cost of senior healthcare in their homes. There are a lot of post-election takes and this one ain’t a good one.”

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    and even marched in a picket line

    the-democrat "We rolled Biden's husk out for a few minutes of photo opportunism...what more do you unworthy shits want from us?!"

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      3 hours ago

      It is remarkable that he's the first president ever to do that, and it's literally the bare minimum of supporting the working class. That he's the first is more of an indictment of the US government than a sign of progress

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        2 hours ago

        It's less than the bare minimum because he's the fucking President. He shouldn't be doing a highly truncated version of what any average Joe has access to, he should be using his office!