Barbara Boxer described Bernie supporters as well, like Trump supporters

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@jsgoddess

I think little to none. I think there is a strain in the American populace that simply wants change. Cue those people who were rabid for Obama who now think that he’s the enemy and are for Sanders. If Sanders won, they’d be for whatever superhero ran next. Those people won’t be swayed by Sanders making nice. For them, making nice would just make him a sellout.

We may see the “sellout” charges levied very soon, if this is accurate.

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Bernie calls a bunch of Senators including Barbara Boxer and makes nice. This could change. I’m inclined to believe it because of pro-Bernie bias. But he did say and he has always said that he will campaign against Trump:

Old CW: Sanders the homewrecker. New CW: Sanders the peacemaker.

This could change. The link could be characterized differently. But November is still far away.

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@Damuri_Ajashi

I am glad that Sanders is holding The Democratic establishment’s feet to the fire. But it seems to me that the party’s focus right now should be winning down ticket elections and taking the house away from the GOP. It could happen.

It’s okay to hold your party’s feet to the fire…if you’re actually a member of the party to begin with. When Hillary Clinton stubbornly refused to bow out in 2008, it was assumed by everyone that she’d eventually drop her crusade because she was a democrat. She had a future with the democratic party. Her husband had a legacy with the democratic party. There was skin in the game, something to lose. The same was true of Jerry Brown in 1992 who, even though defeated well before the convention, continued to launch scathing attacks on Clinton’s character. If we could trust Bernie Sanders to unify the party, his attacks would still probably make me nervous about November, and I’d still probably think that Bernie Bros are fools. But I’d at least be a lot more confident that we’d have some solidarity as the election nears.

Unfortunately, I’m not so confident of that. Bernie Sanders isn’t a democrat, and despite the fact that the democratic party and nobody else gave him a platform for his ideas, he seems to be communicating to his supporters that the democratic party is corrupt and that his definition of progressive is more important than unifying the party and unifying the various denominations of the progressive side of the electorate. He has no loyalties to anyone, which means he is potentially unreliable and untrustworthy. His stated positions on issues mean nothing. What he does or doesn’t do to effectuate them that means everything.

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@Measure_for_Measure

Bernie calls a bunch of Senators including Barbara Boxer and makes nice. This could change. I’m inclined to believe it because of pro-Bernie bias. But he did say and he has always said that he will campaign against Trump:

Old CW: Sanders the Homewrecker. New CW: Sanders the Peacemaker. – Mother Jones

This could change. The link could be characterized differently. But November is still far away.

I don’t think there have been any significant polling data released in the last week but Jeff Weaver knows that Bernie’s image in the press has been hammered pretty hard the last few days. I doubt Bernie did that because he wanted to.

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@jsgoddess

I just realized that I’m essentially describing a political hipster.

“I backed Bernie before it was cool”

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@asahi

I don’t think there have been any significant polling data released in the last week but Jeff Weaver knows that Bernie’s image in the press has been hammered pretty hard the last few days. I doubt Bernie did that because he wanted to.

Good. It’s all the more satisfying if he is being brought to heel rather than just benificently deciding to bestow his good graces upon us.

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@SlackerInc

Good. It’s all the more satisfying if he is being brought to heel rather than just benificently deciding to bestow his good graces upon us.

A part of me wishes he would just keep going and flame out right before the California and NJ primaries.

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Those who think the feelings associated with this primary are in a different category than 2008 might find this interesting: Eight Years Ago - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Excerpts from a couple of letters Josh Marshall of TPM got in 2008:

Thank you for your post today. I too see Clinton’s antics as a way to foment anger and disillusionment among her supporters, and the clear recognition of this gambit is making me feel nauseous. Not to get too dramatic about it, but this is kind of like suspecting your girlfriend is cheating on you compared to actually catching her in the act. I doubted that Hillary would want to sabotage Obama’s chances in the general election, but this makes clear that’s precisely what she is doing.

The thing I worry about, though, is that even if that happens, Clinton still holds the party hostage to some degree. By ginning up such strong sentiments that this thing was “stolen” from her - a sentiment that would be laugh-out-loud funny if the consequences weren’t so deadly serious - she is unleashing something that only she can call back. I have been very distressed about this since yesterday.

At first my thinking was “I’m a democrat, I’ll vote for the nominee”, but as its gone on my discomfort with Obama has grown. I just figured out why. Its not because of the candidate. It’s because of the steady stream of insulting (to Hillary and here supporters) comments I read and hear from the Obama supporters.