gtn130 wrote:No it's not. Bernie is running as the anti-establishment candidate who opposes billionaires and fights for the working class. Hillary and Biden are many orders of magnitude easier to smear. The key thing is tricking people who read the NYT and Wapo - not Trump's base. Every other NYT article in 2016 was about Hillary's emails because people earnestly treated it like a scandal at the time.
Keep on keeping on. We're going to have to agree to disagree here. We are currently in a world where Trump (and Russia) have effectively been actively supporting Bernie thus far. Once those tables turn, suddenly things will look oddly different and nobody will be able to quite figure out why.
Here's the thing, the obvious reason that Russia is supporting Bernie isn't because they do or don't want him to win. Their goal is to create division and that's what Bernie does. That whole anti-establishment thing? That's exactly what the hope is to divide. When push comes to shove, when there are fault lines at play, the Democratic party has waaaaay more fault lines than the Republican one and it's suddenly advantage Trump.
You're looking at this through the wrong lens. It's not actually about smearing. It's about creating fear and confusion. And make no mistake, it would be rather easy to do that with Bernie. Trump can rile up his base with racism. Bernie doesn't have nearly that same kind of calling card. But if you're talking about tricking, Bernie has rather significant trust problems with women's issues, trust amongst African Americans, etc. Those are extremely easy to turn. Just have Trump start agreeing with Bernie on a few issues. He's already been doing it. Suddenly Trump gets his name attached to it a bit which stops any potential bleed he might see of his supporters to Bernie and there is a lot less enthusiasm for turnout from minorities against all the Republican state enacted voter suppression tactics.
Really, I think all this electability talk is completely missing the point and should have been dropped from the beginning. Anyone is electable so long as people are willing to show up and vote. So far, the only person that seems to have suggested they won't show up are Bernie supporters and then they turn around and wonder why nobody trusts them.
