Nina Turner: It Is Not Our Job to Fit Into the Democratic Establishment

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The new president of Our Revolution on race, class, electoral strategy, and whether we’ll feel the Bern in 2020.Nina Turner is a “proud homegirl” of Cleveland, Ohio, where she was a state senator from 2008 to 2014 and a candidate for secretary of state in 2014. Long viewed as a rising star inside the Democratic Party, Turner began 2015 affiliated

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CM: Bernie 2020?

No, it's time to move on.

[eveofrevolution]

[mhfromnh]

even Bernie side eyes them.

[moonshaz]

I agree that it's time to move on.

Among other things, people need to realize that he's just  too damned old. He'll turn 77 in 9/2018. IF he got elected, he'd be 81 by the end of his first term. A second term would bring him to age 85! That is just flat out unrealistic.

I know a lot of people were crushingly disapointed by what happened in 2016, but reality is reality. And the reality is, he was pushing the envelope running at the age of 74. 77 would put him into "Are you freaking kidding me?" territory with a lot of people.

[lightframes]

Exactly. This is what I was worried about after the primary - people are more attached to Sanders than what he was trying to do. He's just a politician - other people can do what he does.

[moonshaz]

"people are more attached to Sanders than what he was trying to do"

This is so true.

[spiritoftherain]

I'm endlessly grateful to Bernie, but I hope he uses his considerable influence and passes the torch to a younger progressive. It's really cool what he helped kickstart and encourage. He got me excited by American politics for the first time in a long while.