He’s absolutely correct.
Otherwise, no complaining on TPM about UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, HUD Sec Ben Carson, or Supreme Court Justice Diana Sykes.
This slick talking interloper has out-stayed his welcome. His rhetoric has always been void of fact and emotional. Now he is becoming divisive. He needs to go away quietly or at the minimum, tamp it down,
OK–but what form would this take? (It has to be more than simply opposing TPP)
The Democratic Party?
When it’s good enough, and pure enough, will Sanders join?
Who is he to lecture, when he won’t even join the party?
He has equal authority to lecture Republicans.
For Chrissake, you Trotskyite wanker, give it a rest, before your finger gets stuck in something and breaks off.
Matt- it’s only “doubling-down” if your FIRST version of Sanders speech is wholly accurate and not cherry-picked.
Because your first shot at this story wasn’t “the whole truth”, the only person who has “doubled down” is you.
He’s reportedly serving out this term as an independent and he will be running as a Democrat in '18.
Winning more votes than your opponent by over Two Million is just not enough. We need to start voter suppression tactics in swing states.
Interesting, hadn’t heard or read that.
STFU already we have nazi drumpf running around and your still trying to split the party. How about you focus on stopping drumph from dismantling the country instead of trying to pick fights with people who should be your ally.
This is just getting insulting. What Latina or minority or female candidates say - I’m (insert minority group here), vote for me!
Who the fuck actually did that? HRC certainly didn’t. HRC and the dems adopted almost all of of Sen. Sanders’ platform and now he wants to act like minorities don’t understand the class and economic implications and are only running on their “identity status?”
ETA; I didn’t mean to reply to you.
BUT, I think you can 100% believe in the importance of identity politics while also hating the recent Trump appointments.
It’s not an either/or.
WTF Sanders.
Bull fing shit.
The complete context made Sanders’s earlier comments only worse. He seems to think minorities stand for elections with their only platform being “Vote for me. I’m X”. And he’s repeating that.
It’s embarrassing. Bernie needs to log out of Reddit already.
And he wonders why he did poorly with minorities and women.
When a reporter asked Sanders his party allegiance after he filed, Sanders responded, “I’m a Democrat.”
He then called on Buckley, the Democratic chairman, who confirmed the senator’s party allegiance. Sanders added that he would run as a Democrat in any future elections.
No Bernie, racial and gender diversity is why the Dems have a voter base in the first place. I do not hate to break this to you: the white working class is DEAD. At best it’s terminal, dying off and there’s really nothing you can do to save it. Those assholes signed their death warrants a long time ago by voting against their best interests for decades and will be steamrolled by progress. If they’re too dumb to be saved there’s no point to trying to cater to them.
Exactly. The idea that any candidate would say: “VOTE FOR ME, I’M A LATINA!” is insulting and not true (or that HRC said that about being a woman while running on the most progressive platform). And then to act like they don’t KNOW about intersectionality of race and class is just stereotypical Berniesplaining.
It’s not just that there is absolutely no democratic candidate who does this. It’s the fact that it makes absolutely no logical sense.
If a Latina said “vote for me because I’m Latina” it’s obviously because the voting population has a large Latinx demographic. So what’s stopping another Latina from standing for the same election and crushing the original Latina with a platform of "Vote for me, I’m Latina, AND ".
Bernie is getting his jollies by erecting a massive straw man and knocking it down. Which wouldn’t be a big deal except for the fact that (in a good move, IMO) Schumer has greatly elevated his standing in the Senate.
Will Senator Sanders just go away already.