2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders is making his long goodbye count - By E.J. Dionne Jr. [View all]Chathamization
(1,638 posts)People who are Sanders supporters are saying that his words are helping with the transition to Clinton, and the data is showing that the transition is happening. People who are not Sanders supporters are saying that Sanders supporters are wrong about what Sanders supporters think, and that non-Sanders supporters understand what Sanders supporters think better than Sanders supporters do. Then they say that the fact that the desired results are happening while Sanders is implementing his strategy is purely incidental (after claiming that if it didn't happen, it wouldn't have been incidental and it would have been Sanders' fault).
Perhaps you're correct. But if a Sanders supporter who had maligned Clinton and her supporters claimed they knew the best way for Clinton to speak to Clinton supporters, dismissed opposing views from actual Clinton supporters, and dismissed the fact that the the desired results were occurring as being purely incidental, you would probably find them delusional. And I would probably agree with you.
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