I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I can't help but thinking it's easier said than done, though, especially if we start talking about low-information voters who tune this stuff out until a week or two before the vote. I'm trying to think of how Bernie could have better distinguished himself from Biden in a way that (1) would have made it through to people not paying close attention and (2) wouldn't have been perceived as overly negative. It's hard to thread that needle.
Yeah definitely, in actuality Bernie needed to straddle a very fine line. I was posting going along with the assumption of the OP that the 2020 primary was actually extremely winnable, and Bernie simply fumbled it.
IF that is the case, then I think the problem was Bernie going too soft on Biden. But that is a big if.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I can't help but thinking it's easier said than done, though, especially if we start talking about low-information voters who tune this stuff out until a week or two before the vote. I'm trying to think of how Bernie could have better distinguished himself from Biden in a way that (1) would have made it through to people not paying close attention and (2) wouldn't have been perceived as overly negative. It's hard to thread that needle.
Yeah definitely, in actuality Bernie needed to straddle a very fine line. I was posting going along with the assumption of the OP that the 2020 primary was actually extremely winnable, and Bernie simply fumbled it.
IF that is the case, then I think the problem was Bernie going too soft on Biden. But that is a big if.
I think the meme is conflating "most winnable (for leftists) in living memory" with "good odds."