FWIW Bernie Sanders's private warning to Biden about the 2024 campaign (WP)

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12. The message has always been that Democrats ignore the working and middle classes, have the same

economic policies as Republicans (neoliberal) because corrupt: "The point I make over and over again ... is the ideas that I talk about are ideas that the American people want. They don't get it because you got a Congress indebted to wealthy campaign contributors."

From his book published last year:

"Are some of them racists and sexists who vote for bigotry? Absolutely. But many are not. I think the more accurate answer as to why Trump has won working-class support lies in the pain, desperation, political alienation that millions of working-class Americans now experience and the degree to which the Democratic Party has abandoned them for wealthy campaign contributions and the 'beautiful people.'

"Many of these so-called racist Americans voted for Barack Obama, our first Black president, and for 'hope' and 'change' and 'Yes, we can.' And they voted to reelect him. But their lives did not get better. ... They see not only a government that is ignoring their needs but politicians busy attending fundraising events with the rich, who have no clue as to what the lives of the great majority of Americans are about."

It's really great that he is supporting Biden so vigorously and that the parties are not the same! Thank you, Bernie.