Grazyn wrote:I didn't really follow the primaries but I was under the impression Sanders had a pretty radical platform, wasn't it the reason he was called a socialist?
You misinterpreted my expression "basic talking points", I meant it in that he would only ever say his policies over and over as opposed to his policies being what everyone else was spouting.
Grazyn wrote:Also no attacking your own party isn't a great idea unless you are already the most popular guy in the party (like Trump and the GOP), and people tend to not like whiners who don't have at least a few wins under their belt
This is the sentence actually that tells me you didn't follow the primaries. Trump started in vaguely the same boat as sanders - nonstandard policy talk, mostly political unknown. Trump didn't start "the most popular guy in the party", he 'earned' it after he basically day one WWE threw Jeb Bush (The heir apparent establishment candidate) into a trashcan by pointing out what a spineless human being he was. After that he spent practically the entire primaries with the talking point of "The Establishment dinosaurs all ganging up on me, I'm still gonna win lol".
Sanders problem was that for all intents and purposes he refused to do anything that might be risky to the point of inaction. He'd basically watch his opponents run their campaigns around him and refused to even slightly attack them with the attitude of "my policy is better so obviously I'm going to win". Elections are popularity contests, not "Who creates the best policy" - that happens after you win.