One of the Founding Fellows of the Sanders Institute:

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14. Silences from the dissident left and the Republican right

always follow a sudden new topic on which they haven't been told what to say yet. It's a thing with people who follow leaders instead being self-directed according to their own principles.

Speaking of Sanders so far distancing himself in silence, Gabbard has always struck me as erratic and self-damaging, potentially self destructive. I wonder if that's why Sanders rejected her when she ostentatiously shat on the DNC and then offered herself with that sterling credential to him. I thought he was very smart to avoid taking a troublemaker inside then, but I wasn't thinking of her relation with Russia as a problem. After all, he has his own relationship with them and his staffers routinely, openly spread RT messages.