{"id":2222,"date":"2020-02-17T22:45:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T22:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2020-02-17T22:45:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T22:45:59","slug":"bernie-sanders-showed-us-hes-a-very-skilled-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders showed us he\u2019s a very skilled politician"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“nervous Democrats should take two things away from this. One is that Sanders does in fact know how the American legislative process works. He has participated in it extensively for decades, knows how you can get things done and also knows how painfully difficult it is to get things done. It\u2019s true that this is at odds with some of his \u201cpolitical revolution\u201d talk, but the point is he\u2019s been around. This is a veteran and reasonably successful member of congress, not some random guy who joined Democratic Socialists of America 18 months ago.
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The other, and in some ways more important, thing is simply that he knows how to do the whole normal politics \u201cpivot to the center\u201d thing. Happy talk about bipartisanship isn\u2019t just for Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders can do it too! He has Republican friends. He knows there are good Republicans out there. He\u2019s worked with them in the past and looks forward to doing so again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s 100 percent true that if Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar started talking like this, they\u2019d get roasted by Sanders\u2019s Twitter fandom. The hypocrisy is very real. But the fact that Bernie\u2019s fans let Sanders get away with this kind of thing is a strength of his. He is smart and trusted, so he has the running room to reach out the center, and \u2014 when appropriate \u2014 he does it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no guarantees in politics, and it\u2019s unquestionably true that Sanders would bring some obvious vulnerabilities to the table. But his track record over the years suggests real skill at navigating these problems, and if you watch his first performance as a real frontrunner in the race you can see those skills in action.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/2\/7\/21128979\/bernie-sanders-won-democratic-debate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“nervous Democrats should take two things away from this. One is that Sanders does in fact know how the American legislative process works. He has participated in it extensively for decades, knows how you can get things done and also knows how painfully difficult it is to get things done. It\u2019s true that this is at odds with some of his \u201cpolitical revolution\u201d talk, but the point is he\u2019s been around. This is a veteran and reasonably successful member of congress, not some random guy who joined Democratic Socialists of America 18 months ago.<\/p>\n

The other, and in some ways more important, thing is simply that he knows how to do the whole normal politics \u201cpivot to the center\u201d thing. Happy talk about bipartisanship isn\u2019t just for Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders can do it too! He has Republican friends. He knows there are good Republicans out there. He\u2019s worked with them in the past and looks forward to doing so again.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 100 percent true that if Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar started talking like this, they\u2019d get roasted by Sanders\u2019s Twitter fandom. The hypocrisy is very real. But the fact that Bernie\u2019s fans let Sanders get away with this kind of thing is a strength of his. He is smart and trusted, so he has the running room to reach out the center, and \u2014 when appropriate \u2014 he does it.<\/p>\n

There are no guarantees in politics, and it\u2019s unquestionably true that Sanders would bring some obvious vulnerabilities to the table. But his track record over the years suggests real skill at navigating these problems, and if you watch his first performance as a real frontrunner in the race you can see those skills in action.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[426,380],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-sanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}