There are some other things transpiring in American politics right now. But we must note that Democratic leaders are now unabashedly stating what Bernie Sanders supporters said over and over in 2020: the party pushed Joe Biden primarily to stop Bernie.
Wait, why is this a big surprise? Or even something that’s wrong? Bernie never had majority support. That the moderates dropped out rather than taking their delegates to the convention and Voltroning then doesn’t change the result. His plan of winning with a plurality was dumb from the start.
“-and even if it was, you deserved it!”
Seriously, explain to me what it is you think was done to him and why it was wrong. Pushing Biden because they wanted someone other than Bernie to win and thought he had the best chance isn’t dirty politics. That’s just regular politics.
Oh, no, I was commenting on how every other time this was brought up, the stock answer was “nothing happened, that’s a conspiracy theory, stop making stuff up”, then when there’s evidence, it flips to “of course, everyone knew that, that’s normal, why would this surprise anyone?”
I’ve literally never heard anyone say that moderates unifying behind Biden was a conspiracy theory. It’s not only patently obvious but so utterly mundane it doesn’t even make any sense to deny. I’m almost certain news stories at the time specifically said they dropped out to unify behind Biden and counter Bernie.