Bernie Sanders Will LOSE 2020 Because Hes a WHITE MAN
Bernie Sanders Will LOSE 2020 Because Hes a WHITE MAN. For months now we have heard this sentiment, white men cannot win in 2020. With Bernie Sanders officially announcing his bid for the presidency I have to wonder if the intersectional feminists would get behind an old white man. I would have to conclude they would not.Bernie is a victim of his own success. As he calls for equity and social justice it just means he is advocating against himself as a white man to be president.But he is still a favorite and polling in second place behind another white man Joe Biden. This makes sense considering in several polls democrats want more moderate policy, not far left identity politics.Is this rift real? Will the far left feminists get behind Bernie?
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Bernie Sanders has officially announced he will be running for the president in 2020, and he is seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party.
The announcement was not met with universal fanfare.
Many people view him as a particularly divisive figure.
According to Gallup and Pew, most Democrats lean more moderate and want to move more moderate, and Bernie is seen as too far left to actually be able to defeat Donald Trump.
Even though he's polling in second place among Democrats behind Joe Biden, he's got another big problem.
He's an old white man, and the growing sect of identitarians within the Democratic Party are not likely to support him for this reason, especially when the Democratic field is so diverse with many non-white individuals and females.
Today, let's take a look at the latest news about his announcement, but also some of the criticism and concerns over him being a white man and trying to win the Democratic nomination.
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First, and very quickly, Bernie Sanders launches second presidential campaign.
After months of deliberation, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced Tuesday that he is running for president again in 2020.
It will be Sanders' second consecutive bid for the Democratic nomination after losing to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
He said, I am asking you to join me today as part of an unprecedented and historic grassroots campaign that will begin with at least a million people from across the country, he wrote in an email to supporters following an interview on Vermont Public Radio.
Sanders enters the 2020 race as one of the frontrunners, a remarkable turn for the Democratic Socialist who three years ago was viewed as a protest candidate from the political fringe.
Today, Sanders is one of the most popular politicians among Democratic voters, and his policy agenda—a suite of progressive proposals to expand health care, broaden the social safety net, and make higher education free—has been embraced by many of the Democratic Party's leading figures.
Ed O'Keefe of CBS News tweeted shortly after the announcement, Bernie Sanders raised more
than $1 million for his 2020 campaign in the first three and a half hours since his official
announcement.
His team says, and California is just getting up, a senior aide quips.
But while Bernie is extremely popular, many of his supporters actually voted for Trump.
Maybe they might move back to Bernie in 2020.
He has another problem.
He's a white male and left wing media and millennial activists have been very much opposed
Just recently, Vox ran this article, what the all-white, all-male MSNBC graphic actually teaches us about the 2020 race.
MSNBC posted an incredibly white, incredibly male lineup of potential Democratic presidential candidates.
In the article they say, Democrats want diversity.
That should make white men pause.
The jarring MSNBC visual of 15 white men all lined up in a row overshadowed the graphic subliminal message.
These guys aren't actually running yet.
They're waiting.
While Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Kirsten Gillibrand, and Amy Klobuchar jumped right in.
Firm in the knowledge that they are what Democratic voters just showed they were looking for in the midterm elections.
Not only in their qualifications and ideas, but in their fresher perspectives they would bring to the presidency.
They add Bernie Sanders is the exception that proves the rule.
In his and his supporters' minds, he has a reason to run.
He has undertaken an ideological project to move the Democratic Party leftward.
He has proven remarkably successful in doing so.
And the left isn't sure how much it can trust the other candidates to continue that work.
So Sanders sounds like he's ready to run.
But your Michael Bennett's, your Jeff Merkley's, your John Hickenlooper's, they have to pause and consider what they bring to the table that Warren, Harris, Klobuchar, and Booker do not.
While Vox was willing to give Bernie Sanders that exception, this story from December from The Hill says Democrats worry.
Top three candidates in polls are all white men.
Democrats are worried that they have a problem.
The three people leading polls in the very early stages of the presidential race are all white men.
The party traditionally battles over identity politics and wants to be seen as promoting diversity.
Its last three nominees have been Barack Obama, who became the nation's first African-American president, and Hillary Clinton, the first woman to win the popular vote.
Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep.
Beto O'Rourke are this year's top-tier candidates, according to a recent and very early Des Moines Register CNN MediaCom poll.
It showed that 32% of those polled in Iowa favored Biden, while 19% Sanders and 11% liked O'Rourke.
In an interview last week, which by the time frame of this article was several months ago, CNN host Van Jones asked Gillibrand, who has been a vocal supporter of the MeToo movement, if she found the latest poll concerning.
In a party as diverse as ours, does it worry you to see the top three being white guys?
Yes, Gillibrand replied.
I aspire for our country to recognize the beauty of our diversity at some point in the future, and I hope someday we have a woman president.
She continued after Jones pushed her on that point.
I love the fact that Barack Obama was our president for eight years.
I hope more people of color not only aspire, but win the presidency, because that's what makes America so extraordinary.
That we are all of that.
We are everything.
And I think a more inclusive America is a stronger America.
The sentiment was repeated only a few weeks later over at RealClearPolitics.
Democrats' diversity push may block white males in 2020.
Saying, in the age of identity politics and increasing demands for diversity, especially on the left side of the political spectrum, can the Democrats nominate a male Caucasian for president in 2020?
In a recent CNN poll of registered Democrats, the top three choices were all white men.
If the 2018 midterms are a guide to Democratic voter sentiment, however, this may not cut it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put it bluntly in her primary campaign slogan against former Rep.
Joe Crowley.
It's time, she said, for one of us.
It's hard to imagine the Democrats would end up with a straight white male, said Kyle Kondik.
And it was just a couple days ago, Politico Magazine published, How Does a Straight White Male Democrat Run for President?
he added, Democrats will want a contrast to the Republicans.
And it was just a couple days ago, Politico magazine published, How Does a Straight White
Male Democrat Run for President?
Very carefully.
I gotta be honest, I pulled up a lot of sources questioning Democrats who would nominate a
white male or the idea that a white male cannot win the presidency.
Add the fact that Bernie's actually really old, and you've got a lot playing against him.
But this speaks to a larger and more important point.
The Democrats are fractured, and I've talked about that quite a bit, but they really are.
Many people support Bernie Sanders.
He's polling in second place behind Joe Biden.
Unfortunately, he is a white male.
As many of the Democrats have begun to embrace intersectionality or left-wing identitarianism, it's likely they would no longer support Bernie Sanders.
And that's unfortunate, because it means the party is split in more ways than one.
Bernie Sanders is your more left-leaning politician.
But 54% of the Democrats, according to a Gallup poll in November, want to be more moderate.
41% want to be more liberal.
It is likely that among that 41% who want a more liberal party, they are more likely to be intersectional or identitarian, and thus, would likely not support Bernie.
If you were to ask me, it sounds like Bernie is only getting a fraction of one fraction of the split in the Democratic Party.
The poll results were repeated almost identically by Pew, who followed up showing that in their poll from January 2019, 53% of Democrats wanted to be more moderate.
Once again, Bernie's falling in the minority of the current Democratic Party.
Combined that with the rise of intersectionality, Bernie is a white man running on the minority side of his party.
I do not see him being able to win.
Just the other day, CNN ran this op-ed by Julian Zelizer, why Joe Biden shouldn't run for president.
And I don't think I need to explain to you what his point was.
His point is simple.
Joe Biden is a white man, and he represents the past.
He explains that the democratic field is very diverse, and it shows the future.
Democrats are showing that they are a party representing the future of this country, in contrast to the kind of rhetoric that has come from President Donald Trump, an ode to the whiteness and masculinity of a limited American political tradition.
He ends by saying, but before Democrats go overboard in shifting their financial and organizational resources, as well as endorsements to the former Vice President, they should think long and hard about whether they want the face of their party to be someone who represents the past or the future.
The party is split in numerous ways, but the predominant split seems to be three ways.
The intersectionals, who want a diverse set of individuals to run for president.
They want people to win based on what they look like or their gender.
You then have the majority of the party that just wants more moderate and realistic policy.
Maybe Amy Klobuchar is going to be that person who might pull ahead, but she probably doesn't have the name recognition.
Now, Bernie certainly has the name recognition, But in the end, even if he wins the nomination from the Democrats, can he really beat Trump?
I would have said so in 2016.
But today, the economy is doing well.
Many people who left Bernie Sanders are now ardent Trump supporters who I can't imagine would go back the other direction.
But then Bernie also has to overcome all of the scandals related to his past.
For whatever reason, you can say it was a conspiracy by the Democrats to try and tear Bernie down, or the fact that times are changing, he's got some scandals in his past.
Bernie Sanders responds to allegations of sexism, harassment by aides during 2016 race.
This was just a month ago.
And worse still, this is compounded by the fact that in 2015 he was dragged over a 1972 essay on rape.
This story from CNN.
Bernie Sanders distances himself from dumb 1972 essay on rape.
It's complicated.
It's extremely difficult to predict what's going to happen in 2020.
Will Bernie Sanders win the nomination?
Maybe the identitarianism among the left will prevent him from doing so.
If he does win the nomination, he might still be able to win, because I'm sure even the editarians would be willing to vote for him in a general election if it means beating Donald Trump.
Unfortunately, you then have to contend with the moderate Democrats, who might be more willing to support Trump.
Twelve or so percent of Bernie's supporters in 2016 chose Trump over Hillary.
There's a lot of reasons for this.
It's complicated.
But will they do the same in 2020?
Will those who moved away from Bernie choose to support him or Trump?
And will the moderate Democrats and Independents move left in opposition to Trump?
It's hard to say.
I think Trump has done certain things that prove to Independents and the working class in middle America he's worth voting for and supporting.
So Trump might actually win.
But keep in mind, Trump won some states by thin margins, so it's really hard to predict.
I will say this.
Bernie Sanders is going to have a tough time ahead of him because he is a white male, plain and simple.
And that's unfortunate, because Bernie stood a good chance of winning in 2016.
But times have changed, and intersectionality is on the rise.
Kirsten Gillibrand said so.
She tweeted that the future will be intersectional.
The future will be female.
And if that's true, Bernie probably can't win.
And in fact, many people will likely call on Bernie to throw his support at someone like Kamala Harris or Kirsten Gillibrand.
But let me know what you think in the comments below.
We'll keep the conversation going.
I used to be a big fan of Bernie, but he started embracing some pretty strange rhetoric that I felt really just turned me off from him.
He claimed that white people didn't know what it was like to be poor, and that's just silly.
But you comment below.
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