• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If it were most Democrats, someone might have beat Biden in the primaries

    No way to know for sure since the primaries are controlled by the party leadership, all of whom are firmly pro-Biden and some of whom have been known to rig the contests in favor of their preferred candidates before.

    I’m getting old. Biden is the farthest left president of my lifetime

    No. Even Obama was further left and he was very much a Clintonite too.

    Some of Congress and some on Biden’s cabinet (most of which were appointed on the advice of others) are further left, but Biden himself is just barely to the left of Joe Manchin.

    there’s no major candidate running to his left this year.

    Because they’re literally not allowed to by the DNC leadership.