Ralph Nader - "Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump's Tyranny"

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Never the less, there were more Democrats who voted for Bush than there were Nader voters. Also, we can't know that all the Nader voters would have voted for Gore, or voted at all.

Blaming Nader is really about maligning progressives in a less that honest way, based on the flawed assumption that it is progressives who (vote Nader/vote Stein/don't vote) and therefore cause the Democrats to lose. How about those who voted for Obama or Biden and then switched to Trump?

25 years later and people are still harping on the relatively small and unimportant issue of Nader voters, while ignoring the much bigger problem of Democratic voters switching to vote Republican. Of course, that would require a hard look at other factors: corporate donations, compromises with the Republicans, voter suppression, poorly run campaigns, the impact of white supremacy on politics, etc. Much easier to just blame Nader.