2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: White progressive analysis of politics is fundamentally broken. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Whatever choices or mistakes Bernie's campaign managers made, it was never a question of his SUPPORTERS being against such an alliance.
It's just that they didn't see supporting the person who seemed to be the status quo, non-transformative candidate as they way to prove they wanted such an alliance.
Why was the choice to back her in the primaries rather than to run someone as a specifically antiracist candidate in the Super Tuesday states, caucus states, Illinois, New York and maybe California? A candidate like that could have gone into the convention with enough delegates to get huge concessions from BOTH candidates. And in caucus states, I think the Sanders campaign would have worked with such a candidate and helped her or his delegates get full representation in Philly.