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Showing Original Post only (View all)WaPo: Bernie Sanders's Trump-like campaign is a disaster for Democrats [View all]
This was in January and even as his primary losses grew, BS has just grown more desperate and more willing to traffic in groundless smears in order to elevate himself by trying to burn the Democratic party around him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/27/bernie-sanderss-trump-like-campaign-is-disaster-democrats/
The polar opposite of this is Sanders and his fleet of Bernie Bros who slash and burn, attack and smear other Democrats. The New York Times reports on Sanderss swarm of online supporters, who have waged vicious and personal attacks on his critics, often focusing on feminist women. Some progressive activists who declined to back Mr. Sanders have begun traveling with private security after incurring online harassment. Several well-known feminist writers said they had received death threats, the Times explains. A state party chairwoman changed her phone number. A Portland lawyer saw her business rating tumble on an online review site after tussling with Sanders supporters on Twitter.
While he might perfunctorily chide his followers, Sanders hired one of social medias most aggressive trolls, David Sirota. Sanders cannot possibly mean to control the divisive rhetoric and animosity spewing from his camp while hiring people infamous for such conduct.
Sanderss denials often strike one as implausible. When a printed, detailed script attacking Warren surfaced and was circulated in multiple states, Sanders shrugged it off as if some low-level employee could have independently drafted and distributed the attack guide. If you have even a passing familiarity with presidential campaigns, as one former staffer from another camp told me, you know some volunteer or low-level staffer in Sioux City, Iowa, is not generating this stuff.
Sanderss own behavior sets the tone and belies the notion that he is not responsible for the most divisive campaign in the primary. His teams baseless claim (for which he had to apologize) that former vice president Joe Biden is corrupt was positively Trumpian. The out-of-context clip that Sanders distributed on social media falsely suggesting Biden favored Social Security cuts was slapped down by fact-checkers, but Sanders continued to insist that Biden supported cuts.
While he might perfunctorily chide his followers, Sanders hired one of social medias most aggressive trolls, David Sirota. Sanders cannot possibly mean to control the divisive rhetoric and animosity spewing from his camp while hiring people infamous for such conduct.
Sanderss denials often strike one as implausible. When a printed, detailed script attacking Warren surfaced and was circulated in multiple states, Sanders shrugged it off as if some low-level employee could have independently drafted and distributed the attack guide. If you have even a passing familiarity with presidential campaigns, as one former staffer from another camp told me, you know some volunteer or low-level staffer in Sioux City, Iowa, is not generating this stuff.
Sanderss own behavior sets the tone and belies the notion that he is not responsible for the most divisive campaign in the primary. His teams baseless claim (for which he had to apologize) that former vice president Joe Biden is corrupt was positively Trumpian. The out-of-context clip that Sanders distributed on social media falsely suggesting Biden favored Social Security cuts was slapped down by fact-checkers, but Sanders continued to insist that Biden supported cuts.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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WaPo: Bernie Sanders's Trump-like campaign is a disaster for Democrats [View all]
TomCADem
Mar 2020
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It's a disaster for Bernie. I hope he loses his seat in the senate to a democrat
captain queeg
Mar 2020
#2
I hope he loses his seat in the senate to a democrat.... you took the words right out of my mouth
trueblue2007
Mar 2020
#28
No. Just as attention must be drawn to Trump's lies and smears, any influential person's for that
emmaverybo
Mar 2020
#7
Some have wondered. It is strange that Bernie has not more consistently criticized Trump,
emmaverybo
Mar 2020
#16
The Campaign financial numbers are due next week, which will make for interesting reading.
OnDoutside
Mar 2020
#30