• Michael
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      21 days ago

      The original source is a verified, leaked email (dated April 23, 2015) from her 2016 campaign. The DNC plan was attached in the email and can be found here.

      The specific quote is from Salon.

    • @teamevil@lemmy.world
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      521 days ago

      I don’t know about what they said, but it’s pretty well known that the DNC encouraged Trump because he was viewed as unelectable. Clinton sucks

      • @Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
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        721 days ago

        That’s part of it, but the other part is so much worse. The DNC and the Clinton campaign strategy was to elevate “unelectable” far-right nutjobs like Trump so that the Democratic party could intentionally pivot to the Right and still look like real opposition by contrast. They saw the writing on the wall ever since Sanders (and left-leaning policies in general) started gaining mainstream popularity in the late 2000s. The Dems are beholden to the same corporate billionaires as the Republicans, and the mere whiff of Leftism-lite made them all terrified that they might become slightly less wealthy under a SocDem government, and that “we the people” might become slightly more influential in said government.

        • @teamevil@lemmy.world
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          421 days ago

          Goddamnit…I was so disappointed I couldn’t vote for Sanders so many times…I really dislike the way the DNC is behaving.