I know exactly what it is. He’s a progressive who prefers to speak in terms of class exclusively while disregarding “identity politics” as having much importance. Therefore attracting progressives who are aware of class dynamics, but not necessarily self aware or introspective enough to see how their own pre…
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I know people who fit the trope to a T. And all of them were pro Warren “I would vote for Liz, just not Hillary” types until she challenged Bernie directly. Now it’s a scorched earth campaign against her from the same people. It’s not completely unfounded, and their hypocrisy is even more infuriating when you know…
I’m honestly sure what your point is, and I don’t think it’s fair to say that “her camp has switched its story of the meeting” since that NYT description of the meeting is not attributed in any way to anyone in her camp.
Bernie Bros always hated Hillary way more than they hated/hate Trump.
I’m not a fan of Bernie at all. I agree with, or am at least sympathetic to, most of his policy positions, but his refusal to actually join the Democratic party, while running for president as a Democrat, rubs me the wrong way. I also dislike his refusal to acknowledge or check his peoples’ worst tendencies. And I…
Bernie fanned the flames by calling her a liar. I’m not surprised she refused to shake his hand. He basically attacked her integrity on live television.
It’s driving me crazy that this is being framed as lying. It’s uncritically repeating a family myth, and yeah, it is very common in white families in the US. It’s practically a cliche. It’s certainly a blind spot she revealed, but she’s also apologized and made a real effort to learn from it. It’s NOT dishonest.
Agreed. And sadly, at this rate he’s going to let his ego cost us the chance to get a progressive candidate elected, and leave us stuck with Joe Biden instead.
Exactly. It’s why I don’t buy this true believer narrative the toxic avenger squad keeps pushing online. She was good enough For Him in 2016, but now he’s The One True Hope.
His last run may well have been ideologically motivated, but this one is ego. Which doesn’t make him a Bad Person, every politician is motivated…
Meh, it’s really only a toxic minority of his base that will go “Bernie or Bust” and they were going that way from the start. They’re just Really loud, and Really online.
The question that I keep coming back to is, “If Sanders wanted Warren to run in 2016 before doing so himself when she demurred, why wasn’t he interested in backing off in 2020 when she was interested in running? It would have saved us all of this grief. And really, the only conclusion I can come to, based on the way…
And yet Bernie Sanders still can’t figure out a way to respond to a modestly unflattering account from a conversation from two years prior without implying that a woman was lying about him—signalling to his theoretically better base of supporters that it was time to get super self-destructive online, which is exactly…
This is the part that drives me crazy. Her mother told her she was part Cherokee. She believed it. I don’t understand why this is an issue. Plenty of people in this country think they are native, and they aren’t. I had a red-haired male colleague from Michigan tell me he was a minority because he was native. Men do…
See...this is a campaign. If you’re going to punch somebody who considered you an ally when they are at their weakest, don’t act shocked when they respond by hitting you with a 2x4. Don’t criticize them for being unwilling to accept constructive criticism designed to end their campaign.
I have to say, from the onset of this “scandal” it felt sort of weird how Warren was immediately declared the liar, while Bernie is the poor kindly old socialist grandpa, CLEARLY hurt by all this and how his friend is beating on him frowny face.
Take a look at the initial comments where Warren’s staff just refuses to…
His whole slogan “Not Me, Us.” has rang hollow from the start.
If it wasn’t about you, you would have sat this one out when your friend, who you claim you encouraged to run in 2016, decided to throw their hat in the ring this round. Especially when you supposedly ran in 2016 because She refused to do so. With the…
Same same same same saaaaaaame. I got nothing tested and never will, but my family definitely had a similar story that got mentioned occasionally and I certainly mentioned it until I was old enough to realize it was bullshit. Also, remember the anti-racist mentality among leftist white people in the early 1990s? We…
Honestly we need to stop giving oxygen to Warren’s native american thing. Family claims of NA ancestry were very, very common in mid-late 20th century White America - especially if your family had been in this country for many generations. This was the case in my family and, since this was all way before DNA testing,…
... I think you missed the point of this article.