There's folks who are CALLED "alt-left", and there are Bernie supporters...they are not the same.

[DanTex]

78. Which is a specific reference to his joining the party out of convenience, then leaving it,

without contributing to it the way other actual Dems have for years. And it's a far cry from "scum", not to mention the Parkinson's stuff and the all that. Plus I don't recall her saying that Bernie would be just as bad or worse than Trump.

Seriously, I can't believe you are even arguing that Joy Reid's comments about Bernie are even close to Jimmy Dore level. And the thing is Jimmy Dore is far from the only prominent alt-leftist spewing that crap. Remember HA Goodman from the primaries? You know, the Bernie supporting columnist that got posted here like every single day? Guess what he has to say about Charlottesville? He put a video titled "HEATHER HEYER BEING USED POLITICALLY BY DEMOCRATS: Trump Offers Condolences". So yeah. Go ahead and tell me about Joy Reid again.


Now as far as the substance of your rebuttal to Joy Reid, its arguable. Yes, he did get support from Democrats. On the other hand, he did bash the party for many years, and one of his stated reasons for running as a Dem was for the money and infrastructure, money and infrastructure that was built by other people during the years that he was bashing them.

Another point here is that some very prominent members of Bernie's campaign, including Nina Turner and Cornel West, refused to back Hillary in the general election. This is at least in part on Bernie. No, he can't control them. But, yes, he can surround himself with people who have enough decency not to help throw the country into Donald Trump's hands. Or, at the very least, make them agree to endorse the eventual winner of the primary a precondition to being part of his campaign. If he had the best interest of the country, or the Democratic Party, in mind, he could easily have done that.


But, this isn't really about whether Joy Reid is right or wrong. It's about the fact that alt-leftists like Dore and Goodman are at an entirely different level of destructive insanity. And they need to be called out for it.