Unintentionally hilarious strategies for Sanders, from a Sanders supporter

[highplainsdem]

with nearly 300K followers on Twitter.


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Bernie must:
1) HAMMER electability. "Joe is Hillary 2.0. Hillary lost to Trump, Joe will too. I'm FDR. FDR won 4 times. I'm the safe option"
2) Don't say political revolution or dem socialist again. Say you're the moderate/ centrist. Polls show that. Biden is extreme.. (1/3)


..Bernie needs to win back the rural, older & suburban vote so you have to tailor a message to that crowd.
3)micro-target a message to each state on the issues that matters most. Michigan is trade, trade, trade. Florida is Social Security.
4) go tit-for-tat with... (2/3)


..the establishment. When they roll out an endorsement you roll out an endorsement. It doesn't matter if the name isn't as big. It's for narrative control & to blunt the media momentum which helped Biden on Super Tues.

Don't overthink it. These 4 steps and Bernie can win. (3/3)

You definitely DON'T want to "overthink" these. If you do, you'll be rolling on the floor laughing your ass off.


Anyway, it's an interesting view into this alternate reality where:
Biden is Hillary,
Sanders is FDR and the safe option,
Sanders' talk about revolution and socialism can be wished away so he can be relabeled a moderate/centrist with Biden the one who's extreme,
rolling out even trivial endorsements will blunt the media narrative about the tsunami of big-name Biden endorsements,
and microtargeting states will suddenly work because apparently this supporter thinks that never occurred to anyone in the Sanders campaign so far and hasn't yet been tried.

[PatSeg]

1. Is that honestly for real?

Sounds like satire!

[dalton99a]

3. He is a bro.

His tweets are full of lies and anti-Biden garbage

[PatSeg]

4. Such strange times and very strange people

[zackymilly]

2. Someone should tell them it's too late. n/t

[comradebillyboy]

5. But Sanders isn't FDR. FDR kew how to form a sucessful

coalition and get things done. He wasn't an ideologue or a purist. In fact he was nothing like Sanders at all.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Why is the candidate getting fewer votes more electable?

That's not the way elections work. Someone should explain democracy to the Bernie Sanders campaign people.