stop me if you’ve seen this take before, but the reason Bernie might not win the candidacy again this time round isn’t that he’s too far left or that he’s too abrasive, it’s because his shtick hasn’t moved much past just being leftwardly abrasive. He hasn’t grokked the technocra-speech and the repartee that suits like Harris, warren and buttigieg* swim in on the daily and that makes normal people go, ‘yeah I’m convinced this is a smart person’.
*he may sound like a stage actor delivering his lines for the first time whenever he opens his mouth, but I think he handled himself tonight way better than I was expecting.eagerly expecting myself to get proven wrong on this in the coming months