The Bernie Bros are vowing revenge.
“We will never – NEVER boost or support Joe Biden or defend his abysmal record and terrible policy positions,” Henry Williams, executive director of The Gravel Institute, told The Post. “We will tell people, as we always have, to vote their conscience and to make decisions based on the interests of all the world’s oppressed people … I do expect a massive exodus from the Democratic Party.” Williams, along with David Oks and Henry Magowan, are the driving forces behind the brief presidential campaign of Mike Gravel, an 89-year-old former Alaska senator who left the race in August. The trio then became enthusiastic Bernie Bros.
The grumbling from Sanders die-hards is no idle threat. A whopping 12% of them voted for Trump in 2016, according to an analysis by Cooperative Congressional Election Study. That added up to roughly 216,000 voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, exit polls showed. Trump’s combined margin of victory in those states was 77,744.
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After sweeping to victories in the early states, many believed Sanders was on a glide path to the Democratic nomination. The momentum was halted by Biden after a crushing victory in South Carolina and strong showings on Super Tuesday. Former establishment rivals like Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg and Mike Bloomberg quickly consolidated around the former vice president. Now, far behind in the delegate math, it’s Sanders who finds his campaign on life-support.
“I think staying in the race is the responsible thing to do,” Bhaskar Sunkara, founder and editor of the socialist magazine Jacobin told The Post. “He needs to challenge Biden on certain aspects of his rhetoric. He needs to accumulate clout and delegates to shape the Democratic platform and pressure the Biden campaign into adopting a more popular economic platform.”
Sunkara says he too has no plans to vote for Biden.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/bernie-bros-warn-of-massive-exodus-if-democrats-nominate-joe-biden/
That's accurate.
It's also accurate that Democrats have been pushing socialism for years but the DNC has done a masterful job of undermining Sanders's campaign. IOW, they're trying to have it both ways and it's blowing up in their faces.
They know/have always known that the american public is not in favor of socialism, so Pelosi & Co. always couched it in several layers of feel-good words/hid their intentions. The idiots like AOC coming along dropped the mask, then they started to think that they’d actually convinced enough people that socialism is a good thing. Then they saw bernie’s numbers in actual primaries. The adults woke up and said, “aw hell...we didn’t brainwash hard enough,” and the brainwashed masses said, “fuck you if you don’t pick a socialist! Everyone wants socialism!”
So doublespeak in other words.