Vassenor wrote:So I'm hearing rumblings about the whole "everyone dropped out and endorsed Biden therefore primary rigged" going around again.
Problem is, isn't that just an admission that Sanders' support base wasn't as wide as everyone claimed if he was dependent on a split opposition in order to succeed?
I mean, I guess? But that would mean you wouldn’t have considered a Biden win legitimate either if he’d only secured a plurality, right (as it looked like he would have to if he hoped to win before South Carolina).
As for the dropping out around the primaries, I think “rigged” is a charged word that implies it was done self-consciously and sinisterly, but it’s not really unreasonable to highlight the fact that a sudden coalescence of elites was enough, in the Democratic Party, to change the dynamic of a heavily contested primary so dramatically that it very quickly produced an unexpected result despite little evidence of popular support for that result. It’s interesting from a political lens, whether or not you like the various figures involved, that they were able to do that (especially since the GOP apparently can’t pull off such a feat), and it’s perfectly reasonable to argue that, for example, you don’t think it’s ethical or legitimate.