I've been seeing a lot of Trump supporters lately hoping that Bernie wins the Democratic primaries.
Hoping that Bernie wins is incredibly stupid. Bernie is probably the only candidate in the 2020 field who has a shot at beating Trump.
If Biden becomes the Democratic candidate, or if Mike Bloomberg becomes the candidate. The Democrats instantly lose. Biden and Bloomberg's entire campaign is essentially "I'm not Donald Trump." There's no energy behind their campaigns. Nobody actually cares about them, Biden and Bloomberg are very mediocre candidates with essentially no potential to grow their support beyond what they already have. If anything, Biden will probably only lose voters instead of gaining them the longer he stays in the running. Even though Bernie is older than Biden is. Biden is obviously more senile than Bernie and his politics look like 2008's politics instead of 2020's.
Bernie Sanders has a tremendous amount of energy for his campaign that goes beyond a simple message of "vote for me if you don't like Trump." Republicans who only talk to other Republicans think Bernie has no chance because of what a radical socialist he is. But truthfully, Bernie is not that radical, and socialism is not controversial or political suicide anymore. 42% of Americans actually have positive views towards socialism now.
A lot of Republicans seem to be under the impression that no centrist or centre-left voters would go for Bernie. This is absolutely false. I know people who I'd consider centre-right actually who like Bernie Sanders. The only people who support Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bloomberg are people who are either solidly left leaning in the first place, or people who would vote for anyone as long as that candidate wasn't Trump. Bernie, however, has much more potential to pull people away from the centre-right.
There's another issue as well, and that's voter turnout which Republicans are seriously underestimating. If Bernie wins, voter turnout in favor of him from the left is going to be enormous. Bernie's campaign has passion behind it, and the only thing that's gonna win this election is passion. Trump already has it, and the only Democrat candidate who has a shot at winning the primaries who also has passion, is Bernie Sanders. If Biden or Bloomberg wins, a lot of Democrat voters are going to not turn out to the polls because they don't actually care enough about whether they win. So voter turnout in their favor is gonna be low-moderate whereas turnout for Bernie is going to be very very high. The impact of that will easily be enough to cancel out the people who think he's too radical.
So I would seriously warn anyone who's supporting Trump against rooting for Bernie to win the primaries. If Bernie wins, we got a race on our hands. If any of the other Democrats win, then Trump will destroy them.


Sorry, but the idea that anyone center right would go for a communist pretending to be a socialist is ridiculous.