Yep. And she has addressed much of her record during direct interviews, and they tend to be complex explanations that aren’t distillable into soundbites or memes.

Elizabeth Warren.  No, she is not a socialist.  But a socialist cannot win a general election imo.  

LMAO. White people Santa. Perfect descriptor.

Why choose Sanders over Warren though?

He’s a person who envisions the “working class” as dads on the factory line, not single moms who are waitresses. And it’s painfully obvious.

I literally can’t wait for white progressive bros on Twitter to learn for a second time that the Democratic voter base is women, especially women of color....and not white working class men who hate Hillary Clinton.

I agree with a lot (most?) of what Senator Sanders espouses; I am also to the left of Senator Sanders. I find that he’s been on the right side of history for much of his career. My problem isn’t his positions (with a few exceptions); it’s in his unwillingness to admit mistakes, amplify the voices of POC (particularly…

Fucking THANK YOU.  It’s not because I don’t LIKE him.  It’s because he’s a slimy grifter pretending to be White People Santa. 

Yeah, he’s the Tomato Face troll, who now seems to have a thing for sauces.

he would never, could never beat trump. I will give him credit in that he’s sold a large swath of people (young white liberals, mostly) that he has some secret ability to talk to the working class. But once you puncture the shiny veneer of this premise, it’s all downhill from there.

I like a lot of his policies. He has huge blind spots when it comes to race and gender, and since women and people of color make up a large part of the Democratic party that can’t just be hand waved away. There were a lot of reasons that party members voted for Hillary in 2016 (none of which had anything to do with…

I won’t vote for someone who won’t show his tax returns. I won’t vote for someone who hires Tad Devine to run his campaign. I won’t vote for someone who votes repeatedly to protect Russian oligarchs from accountability. 

He shouldn’t be the Democratic Party candidate for president.

Uh, were you asleep in 2016? That was essentially Clinton’s unofficial campaign slogan.

I mean, the point you’re trying to make about his male priveledge rings true, but the specifics are very conspicuously false.

“Some of us, not me, pinched our noses and voted for Hilldawg.”

Look. I’ll vote for him if he wins the primary, just like I’ll grit my teeth and vote for Kamala (despite how much I hate her prosecutorial record) if she wins the primary because they are both not Trump. But I don’t not want to vote for him because I don’t like him. I don’t want to vote for him because I think he…

To be fair, even that first premise is questionable. Which is why I agree about staying in the Senate or private sector - he’s a better activist than he is a legislator, team builder, policy wonk, etc.

Yes, as I recall, Bernie Sanders was in fact the progressive visionary behind Hillarycare! And remember when he won the 2016 primaries?!?

I really, really think he would have done better to strongly endorse someone rather than throwing his hat in the ring again. I don’t know if he could beat Donny, and alternately I’m also worried that if he *doesn’t* get the nomination we’ll have anger and disenchantment on the left similar to what we had in 2016.…

There is only one criteria by which to judge Sanders and every other current and likely Democratic candidate: can he beat Trump? Every other consideration is secondary.