I did not have ‘Pelosi takes on the gerontocracy’ on my 2024 bingo card
One Pelosi ally said it was possible she would press Biden publicly to give up his spot atop the Democratic ticket.
“The speaker does not want to call on him to resign, but she will do everything in her power to make sure it happens,” this person said, referring to Biden quitting the race.
[Edit] changed the title to Politico’s after reading this community’s sidebar
AOC and Bernie know that if they don’t toe the line, they’ll be blamed for the democrats losing (they’ll be blamed anyway).
They did the best they could to get the democrats to adopt winning policies, but they failed.
Bernie doesn’t give a fuck. (Who blames him for what)
He does nothing for image. Everything for principle.
Bernie does do things for image for the purpose of principle though - he will happily fall in line publicly over politics if it gives him political clout to make workers’ lives better.
Sounds a lot like doing something on principle to me.
I don’t disagree, but I did want to highlight that while not everything he does directly helps working people he’s always focused on that goal. Other politicians may want to be loved but Bernie just does it for the end goal.
(You can find some hilarious interviews with him about merchandising things like Birdie and the Mittens meme - he acknowledges that it’s useful for fund raising and visibility but he really has no patience for it)
Just like how nobody blamed Bernie and the left in 2016 when he fell in line after they told him
Yeah, they said hey you should forgive hundreds of billions of dollars worth of student loans, spend a trillion dollars on climate change, boost unions and domestic manufacturing and reduce income inequality for the first time in God knows how long, all while digging out from Covid better than literally any other first world country
And the Democrats said naw if we did all that I am sure the media would just fail to mention that any of it happened because they are partisan corporate hacks, leaving people with some kind of impression that Biden was an unimpressive nothingburger, so why… uh, wait…
Wait they didn’t do any of that, did they? Help me out
Also, this whole campaign has really highlighted that it’s Biden’s stubbornness and ego that’s the problem. People are tiptoeing around the issue because in the end grandpa stopping driving is his decision and if you come at him hard he’s likely to dig his heels in.
Except the state can take Grandpa’s license away. Just saying.