Has anybody discussed how anti-semitism could affect this primary season if Mike B. starts

[CTyankee]

winning more and more?

I expect that garbage to be "incoming" if Mike starts to move up further in the polls.

[UniteFightBack]

1. Yup I've thought of it...and I think if THEY DARE it will backfire big time. nt

[msongs]

2. isnt bernie jewish? nt

[Happyhippychick]

4. Yes

[CTyankee]

11. Yes, but not rich like Bloomberg.

Altho I expect to hear some disgusting anti-semitic crap against Bernie too.

[Azathoth]

13. But he's a socialist, which is arguably just as stereotypical

There's gonna be anti-Semitism in the general if anyone who even sounds Jewish wins the nomination.

[CTyankee]

14. You got that right...(sigh)

[relayerbob]

3. So far ....

most attacks have been backfiring on candidates who do it. We can hope that trend continues

[highplainsdem]

5. I think the OP is about attacks from Republicans, not other Democrats.

[relayerbob]

7. I understand ...

but they haven't worked well either. Their kool-aid drinkers will believe anything, but the rest are learning to take the opposite side of whatever 45 says. Each attack alienates more and more people.

[mucifer]

6. Lots of us thought Barack Obama couldn't win because he is Black. We were wrong

That doesn't mean I want Bloomberg to win the primaries BTW.

[Blue_true]

8. I seriously doubt that will be an issue for him.

We have plenty of Jewish people in Florida, I went to school with a number of kids that were Jewish, it was not an issue then and it doesn't appear to be on now.

Maybe his ethnicity will hurt him in some states, but I promise you, those were not states that we would have won with any candidate.

[Tipperary]

15. Yes. Good post. nt

[Zolorp]

9. It would definitely put Trump's Neo-Nazi base front and center.

Most likely it would work in Bloomberg's favor.

[jaysunb]

10. 1960: John F. Kennedy. . A Catholic will never be president of the USA. Nt

[Garrett78]

12. Bloomberg should be more worried about his own expressed bigotry.

If Bloomberg buys the nomination, he'll become a disaster once the social media campaign against him gets going. Turnout of our base will be drastically suppressed, especially youth and POC, once his history is more well-known.