Bernie Sanders and the Peter Principle

[Jim Lane]

72. There is supporter misbehavior from some Sanders people and from some Clinton people.

I've been told right on this forum that ANY criticism of Hillary Clinton is inadmissible because she's certain to be the nominee and therefore criticism does nothing except help the Republicans. I consider that attitude to be toxic but on my scorecard Clinton herself gets zero blame for it. Presidential candidates can't reasonably be expected to monitor the Internet and pass judgment on all comments by everyone who announces support for them.

Presumably Chafee and O'Malley also have some supporters who are jerks. The only difference is that, because there are fewer such supporters overall, and because their candidates are currently perceived as not being a threat to anyone, they have much less opportunity to overreact to perceived slights.