# True? "Democrats would rather have fascism than Bernie Sanders' populism"?

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**Created:** [November 29, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-democrats-would-rather-have-fascism-than-bernie-sanders-populism/1010953 "2024-11-29T21:55:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-democrats-would-rather-have-fascism-than-bernie-sanders-populism/1010953/61 "2024-12-02T06:11:58Z")

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> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> One side (Trump) will be happy to bulldoze Gaza and make it Mar-a-Lago Mediterranean.

…happy to debate this further in this thread.

> [@What will happen in Gaza now that Trump won?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-in-gaza-now-that-trump-won/1009762):
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> Will the Palestinians be wiped out? Will they be forced out of Gaza to other countries? Will the West bank be fully subsumed? How will a Trump Presidency affect the current conflict?

Because it should be plainly obvious that BOTH sides are happy to bulldoze Gaza. Its being bulldozed right now under Biden. It would have continued if Harris got elected. There would have been no change on the ground in Gaza no matter who won the election. And the people in Michigan knew it.

> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> But Harris didn’t _earn_ it? WTF?

No, she didn’t earn it. Again: a subject for a different thread. But generally that’s how politics work in a democracy. You earn people’s votes. You don’t get them by default.

> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> I will never understand this self-destructive stance.

The “self-destructive stance” was having the wrong people in charge of the Harris campaign. Because it was a disaster.

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