2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WaPo: "Bernie Sanders just gave an amazingly condescending interview about Hillary Clinton" [View all]Haveadream
(1,630 posts)And those parts would be policies and practices. It is helpful when Bernie presents specific solutions rather than making negative, sweeping generalizations about Dems, Hillary or what is broken. An example of where he is offering a solution is the goal of raising the minimum wage to $15. At least that gives everyone a benchmark to work with, whether they agree or not. Unfortunately, he didn't do much of that in his interview. Saying "we have to break up the banks" or that "Hillary has to show she cares" is so vague as to be rendered meaningless and opens him up to criticism of the kind in this article. Bernie is much more likely to get what he wants if he were to say with some specificity what that is. Otherwise, his words are open to too much interpretation and can be construed as complaining and personal animus rather than policy.