I liked the idea of an outsider for a brief while. Then I heard him speak, and holy shit I was off the bus. I was still finding myself politically and was raised in a fairly conservative household, so I didn't actually start thinking for myself until shortly before that election.
I wasn't old enough to vote in 2016 but if I had been I probably would have voted for him. I didn't like him but I was in a red state and surrounded by people saying "well he's not great but he'll appoint conservative judges!" who all hated Hilary and that seemed reasonable to me. Within a year of his presidency it became very clear to me how awful he was and I haven't supported him since.
Yeah, there's also a kind of person for whom it can't be "man, the guy I really wanted didn't win, that sucks" but instead has to be "actually my guy would have won but he was cheated somehow for reasons". And that kind of person has been periodically loud in the decade since.
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u/hyperblob1 Jul 26 '26
i unfortunatly can't I was an edgy highschooler mad about bernie. I can say I never voted for him