Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Here's why Hillary won the primaries on her second try, but Bernie probably won't. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the sanderistas echoing the trumpsters' "Lock her up!" are mostly all the same people, no doubt with some aged out of it being replaced with newbies of the same orientation.
We know them by the professional studies that describe them and report their attitudes and their generally similar numbers/proportions over the years, but for us most obviously by the signature aggressive and unprincipled behaviors they repeat election after election arising from their apparently hard-wired passionate oppositionalism and antagonism toward the majority.
In anxious, insecure times, their numbers and visibility grow. They're loud now, and the only answer for them is to make the most of their visibility before it's destroyed by restoration of good, stable government.
Btw, that's not a guess. Interviews and polls of naderites-cum-PUMAs-cum-sanderistas-cum-steiners/trumpsters report they are similar in numbers to 2016 and generally plan to vote for Sanders (most oppositional option) in the primary and no Democrat after that. Sanders told them the DNC "rigged" the election and that's still their "die on this hill" excuse until they adopt a more up-to-date lie.
(Note, this does NOT refer to the 3/4 of Sanders Democratic voters who always intended to vote for whoever became our nominee. Very different kinds of people.)
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden