Opinion: Why Joe Biden Needs a Primary Challenger

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15. No. The opposite. Hillary: "I felt like I was wearing a straitjacket."

"Throughout the primaries, every time I wanted to hit back against Bernie's attacks, I was told to restrain myself. Noting that his plans didn't add up, that they would inevitably mean raising taxes on middle class families, or that they were little more than a pipe dream -- all of this could be used to reinforce his argument that I wasn't a true progressive. My team kept reminding me that we didn't want to alienate Bernie's supporters. President Obama urged me to grit my teeth and lay off Bernie as much as I could. I felt like I was wearing a straitjacket."

Her campaigning, despite the bullshit that Democrats only run on "I'm not as bad as Republicans, vote for me," wasn't all negative against Trump. Number one word in her campaign speeches was "jobs." But we're supposed to think she "ignored" the working class and had no economic policy and wasn't progressive.