I could have stood to hear him say "go fuck yourself" at some point or another
Or maybe just stop apologising and begging for fairness from people who fucking hated him. It makes me feel sick in retrospect.
He didn't even try to purge the party. He has a fundamental view that most people are good, even his political enemies. He's wrong and was probably doomed because of it.
It was a betrayal, albeit not a deliberate one. A noble failure or an act of cowardice depending on who you ask. But disastrous and damaging either way.
It's really sad that Corbyn and Bernie had the same fatal flaw of trusting their political enemies to do the right thing despite getting fucked over by them time and time again.
Should've just nationalised every position in the labour party /s
Of course, but they went for him immediately and after a few months his popularity and trustworthiness polling was way higher than the media's. He should have known by then that they didn't give a single shit about fairness or truth and turned against them, calling them out on their bullshit, basically doing an articulate, evidence based version of what Trump did. Instead his constant cow towing and playing nice empowered them and ultimately destroyed him.
They would have called him Trumpian and authoritarian and a Stalinist purging the party anyway, and we know this because they still did despite him playing ball and rolling over and giving ground. Boris Johnson purged 20+ MPs and the media basically shrugged for a week and then forgot about it. The coverage was never about Corbyn's actions.
I feel for him. He was facing a terrible challenge and a powerful, united enemy. But he never really took on that challenge. He tried to play nice, ignore it, and hope naively that people wouldn't pay attention and it destroyed the best chance the left has had electorally in half a century.
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Corbyn didn’t want to. Goes against what he believes in. He doesn’t believe in leadership in the traditional sense, he wanted to democratise the party and make the change come from the bottom.
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He couldn’t. There were only about 20 left MPs at the time. If he had purge half the party would have left and that would be very bad optics especially through UK’s right wing media. this was part of the reason why he didn’t fully democratise the party and push through with mandatory reselection. Right wing wreckers kept threatening to leave and some did.
Labour members voted for Corbyn for his idealism but they needed John McDonnell because he has the balls to lead.
He would have defended himself from smears. He would have stood up for himself against the media. He wouldn’t have taken as much shit from MPs. He would have had a different type of staff working for him. His political ideology is also a bit different, Corbyn is a bit more of an idealist. He probably would have been more strategic with appointments.
Then again part of Corbyn’s appeal is how fucking pure he is.
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