Vetting Bernie

10/06/2025

10/21/2024

Retire you old spoiler. https://susanbordo.substack.com/p/bernie-sanders-put-that-wagging-finger?r=384ha&fbclid=IwY2xjawGDO_9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaofcl_ErIwd6sckunNPxUQh1NxwN6ZJKCQ3QothSh3zrnBcdjM1GYNHjA_aem_UqLVvpnDcUEb6y7GYaqHqQ

Want the Dems to win? Going on MSNBC with your old stump speech isn’t the way to do it. You have advice for Kamala? Call her on the phone and then take a nap.

07/14/2021

Bernie Sanders’ 2020 national co-chair Nina Turner said she wouldn’t take lobbyist donations. Guess what happened next.

11/13/2020

Elizabeth Warren wouldn’t have won either. Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg probably would have lost, too.

09/30/2020

Maybe we should call it the "sanders court".

07/11/2020

The former California political director says the campaign that championed workers' rights ignored her complaints of harassment and discrimination.

06/28/2020

If diagnosis augured cure, Bernie Sanders might become a second Franklin Roosevelt. Instead, he evokes an ersatz George McGovern: a candidate who inspires great passion among a slice of the electorate just large enough to win his party’s nomination, before…

05/16/2020

“A lot of Bernie's very active base are really enraged" by the actions of some supporters since Sanders dropped out, a former adviser said.

04/10/2020

But actually there are three, which helps explain why he had to drop out of the race on Wednesday.

04/07/2020

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-bros-are-loud-proud-and-toxic-to-bernie-sanders-campaign

The Vermont independent is grappling with a toxic wedge of fandom that threatens to distract from his campaign and turn off potential supporters.

04/05/2020

Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders is receiving advice to quickly exit the 2020 presidential campaign, The Washington Post reported Saturday. “A small group of Bernie Sanders’s top aides and allies — including his campaign manager and his longtime strategist — have encouraged the ind...