Why would Hillary try to kneecap Bernie now?

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56. An interesting article I found that points out some of her grievances against Bernie aren't quite

true.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-attack-hollywood-reporter-fact-check.html#comments

Clinton’s resentment of Bernie Sanders is not entirely unfounded. The Vermont senator did remain in the 2016 primary through the very end (of its first year, anyway), despite the fact that he had no plausible path to a delegate majority by early spring. Further, given how close the general election proved to be, it is conceivable that, had Bernie Sanders never entered the 2016 primary, Donald Trump would have never entered the Oval Office.

But then, one could plausibly say the same thing about Clinton. We can’t know whether Bernie (or Martin O’Malley) would have won. But we do know that Clinton ultimately proved to be the second-most-unpopular major-party nominee in American history. And we also know that Clinton pulled few punches — and offered no timely surrender — during her 2008 campaign against Barack Obama, which makes her complaints about Sanders’s intransigence and attacks in 2016 more than a little hypocritical.

All this said, Clinton’s antipathy for Sanders is understandable. But the criticisms she levies in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter range from misleading to mendacious. Her refusal to pledge her support for Sanders in a general election, meanwhile, would be shameful even if her critiques of the socialist senator were all indisputably true.

It is true that Bernie Sanders has been in Congress for years and that Jeff Merkley was the only senator to endorse him in the 2016 primary. But everything else Clinton says here is false. Eight members of Congress have endorsed the Vermont senator this cycle, including the co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and three of the House’s most prominent first-term congresswomen. The fact that these lawmakers have rallied to Sanders’s side — despite the presence of another viable progressive candidate in the race — suggests that they have a high-level of interest in working with him.

A lot more at the link.