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Lots of people across the spectrum won't want to accept this for a variety of reasons, but Chait is basically correct
"Perhaps it was the party’s intelligentsia, not Biden, that was out of touch with the modern Democratic electorate." Yep. Throw in the media, which tries to impose its own parochial fixations, especially around identity, on voters who do not subscribe to their blinkered ideology
This is an accurate characterization of Bernie's performance in 2016. Anyone who covered that race (as I did) knew that many people were drawn to him simply as the only Hillary alternative. He still increased the popularity of socialism, but not to the degree often portrayed 
