2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Berners threatening to avenge his primary loss by voting Trump or third party. [View all]That was just the latest freaking example, as you know. They've attacked him from the beginning because of the socialist label (everyone knows he's a socialist and don't care), they've attacked his supporters as sexist ("Berniebros"
, hating foreigners ("English only"
, they've attacked (and often lied) about his proposals and put forward cost estimates that were wildly inaccurate and unscientific (often also ignoring collective benefits), they (the entirety of the establishment) has argued that everything he wants to do is impossible (which it isn't, it is a long term vision to fight for and to organize around, no one said it would happen tomorrow), etc.
The fact is that they have more to attack Clinton on than they do Sanders. What they have with Sanders is the socialist label, which doesn't work like it used to, and silly little controversies. They've attacked Clinton more in part because she has so much more to attack her on, and because of that there's more opportunities to create fake controversies as well.