You can’t blame Bernie.
Nothing threatens a cult of personality like… a cult of personality. And many of the most threatened are the Sandernistas who put in time and effort building Bernie’s third house only to face the prospect of the mob of fans getting tired of Bernie’s shtick and going Beto.
Bernie is once again in the No. spot. He thought he had the white hipster vote nailed down. No way were those boys and girls going to Biden or Kamala. But Robert Francis O’Rouke has one thing that Bernie doesn’t have, youth.
Also the ability to talk to people outside Marxist book clubs.
So it’s getting ugly in progland.
Forces loyal to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are waging an increasingly public war against Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, the new darling of Democratic activists, as the two men weigh whether to seek the party’s presidential nomination in 2020.
It started with David Sirota, a liberal activist and journalist who worked for Sanders many years ago. In a long tweetstorm, Sirota noted that O’Rourke had received more donations from the oil and gas industry than any candidate in the 2018 cycle other than Cruz.
“I think this week can be understood as a kind of turning point, where — for the first time really — millions of Americans are seeing pieces that look underneath the superficial gloss of projections onto Beto,” said Norman Solomon, who was a delegate for Sanders at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
Nomiki Konst, a progressive activist and 2016 Sanders supporter who is now running for public advocate in New York City, said liberal activists mostly kept quiet about their concerns over O’Rourke’s record, including the backing he got from the centrist Blue Dog Democrats, before he lost a Texas Senate race to Republican Ted Cruz in November.
Bernie Inc. isn’t just a way for Bernie to buy another house. It’s a machine for elevating hate filled radicals to higher office. And so Bernie Inc. is focusing on that distinction. They’re throwing lots of dirt in the hopes of protecting Bernie’s chances at 2020.
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