The Liberal case against Bernie

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37. Susan Bordo:

"No, Bernie never said to 'lock her up.' But as the primary election made way for the general, he made no attempt to disengage Hillary Clinton from the DNC 'rigging' his surrogates and campaign manager constantly complained about -- a 'myth' according to Kurt Eichenwald ... . Yet he was still hammering away at Clinton, invoking the words 'Goldman' and 'Sachs' as often as possible, and delivering crowd-pleasing sarcasm about Clinton's unreleased transcripts of her speeches. Ignoring that the fees, outrageous as they are, are standard (if not on the low side) for famous folk, he used the line, over and over: 'It must be a fantastic speech, a brilliant speech which you would want to share with the American people. It must be Shakespearean!' As to the DNC emails, as Sanders himself later admitted, we surely would have found emails just as nasty, if not worse, had Sanders's campaign been hacked as well.

"Did Sander have every right to continue his campaign? Yes. Did he do serious damage to Clinton's chances of winning over Trump every time 'devil' and 'demon' were used to describe her and he offered no protest, every time he portrayed her as the servant of Wall Street whose impending victory was stolen from 'the people' by a 'corrupt' DNC? Again, yes. Undoubtedly yes."