Before the big clampdown, I'm gonna say this

[Gothmog]

141. Social justice concerns are not the reason why Sanders failed to attract key groups in the base

Sanders was primarily an one issue candidate and that issue was not appealing to many groups in the Democratic base. There were a host of reasons why Sanders failed to appeal to various groups that have nothing to do with race or concerns about social justice. Again, I like Sanders but I never felt that he was electable and felt that Sanders would be destroyed by the GOP in a general election contest. Other groups had different reasons including the fact that Sanders attacks on President Obama and his desire to reject the Obama legacy. None of these reasons had any basis in race or concerns about Sanders' positions on social justice. I never felt that Sanders was racist but it was my opinion that Sanders was a little tone deaf on the concerns of other key groups in the base. I admit that I was upset when Sanders supporters simply refused to accept the fact that key groups of the Democratic base were not buying his positions for valid reasons that had nothing to do with race.

The Harvard study cited on another thread showed that Sanders got very very favorable press coverage and the Clinton campaign was careful to never go negative on Sanders and treated Sanders with kid gloves. Sanders did far better than expected because there was never a need for the Clinton campaign to go negative on Sanders. The GOP did their best to help Sanders and not attack him while running negative ads against Clinton. I am not aware of any real negative ads or attacks being run against Sanders or people claiming that Sanders is a racist. Again, many Sanders supporters caused some hard feelings by lecturing various groups as to why these groups were wrong for not supporting Sanders. Being tone deaf is not being racist.

Sanders did not match or appeal to key groups of the Democratic base for reasons other than race. Sanders appealed to a specific segment of the Democratic base and that is fine. However, it is not racism that cause other segments of the Sanders base to reject Sanders.

As a Jew, I also found the claims that Sanders' faith played a role in the race offensive. Sanders actually did somewhat poorly among Jewish voters from what I can see and at my Temple there were very few Sanders supporters. Jewish voters over 40 in particular did not support Sanders from the polling that I have seen and you would not believe some of the complaints I heard at various events at the Temple about Sanders helping Trump (who really scares many Jewish voters).

Again, I strongly disagree with the premise of your OP.