Jimmy Dore Is Correct!

The recent Jimmy Dore Show criticisms, by the host and toward 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, are necessary.

There have been people, especially at a truly progressive discussion site at which I participate, who voted the nomination to Sanders in 2016 and have followed Dore. They feel the host has gone overboard.

I don’t think so.

I think whether Dore has overdone it is not the point.

While it is the case that the Democratic Party Establishment is corrupt—and will do all they can to stop the actual left from reaching meaningful power in the party much less a presidential nomination—the criticisms of a candidate Sanders are necessary with focus on what he could and should have done differently. That they may have made enough difference.

The first thing Sanders should have done was strategize against Joe Biden. This would have required acknowledging Biden, for the primaries, as Sanders’s enemy. I don’t think he did. The fact that Zephyr Teachout researched and wrote about a then-U.S. senator Biden having been an enemy to proponents of Social Security, and did so repeatedly over a thirty-year period, and Sanders opted to soften that blow against Biden, showed Sanders was not fighting for the nomination. Sanders was more interested in so-called decorum. What he did, with that example, was protect Biden.

The fact that Biden was no friend to Blacks historically, unlike Sanders (who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s), and that Sanders did not use it as ammunition to win over—or to at least dent Biden’s margins—with Blacks tells me Sanders did not seriously go after the Black vote in 2020.

Who Sanders has in his campaign—any party establishment figures—certainly plays a role. But, ultimately, the cold, harsh reality of win-or-lose U.S. politics ultimately rests with the candidate.

The nomination was winnable.

Jimmy Dore is coming down on Bernie Sanders, in part, because he is aware Sanders did not actually do what he could to win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

It isn’t just Jimmy Dore.



The first video, below, is titled “Trump Shows Bernie How to Win Pres. Election.” Its running time is 13 minutes. It was published to YouTube on Monday, April 6, 2020.

Adding to this, with a second video, is Jamarl Thomas. The second video, with a running time of 25 minutes, is titled “Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Weakness Is Just Nauseating At this Point.” It was published to YouTube on April 7, just shortly before Sanders “suspended” his campaign.