2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Survey Shows the Hillary Clinton Supporters are More Racist Than Sanders Supporters [View all]Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)"Not good enough, Bernie." To add fuel to the fire
The, "Not good enough Bernie" article was illustrated (and replicated here on DU) with a picture of an injured or dead black man with his head being held up by two white men and depicted as the result of a game hunt. It was absolutely sickening to tie Bernie to such a racist and violent act. But you see, people didn't know Bernie. They were not aware of his civil rights activism
his arrest
his consistent criticism over the years of over-policing and criticism of the mass incarceration of black and brown youth. You see, Bernie hasn't, throughout his career promoted racist policies; whereas Hillary has. So they had to kneecap him early. Near simultaneously, 2 white conservative authors mirrored the the narrative.
So the narrative was threaded; and over months, stitched into a whole with BernieBros; and then tied off. It was a brilliant piece of advertising. More brilliant than the kneecapping of Gore smearing him as a fabricator
When Gore was probably the sincerest candidate since Carter.