I am not a Bernie Sanders supporter, but....

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67. Criticisms of policy can be walked back, character attacks not really.

If it's not true it shouldn't be said, but sometimes campaigns go negative and sometimes candidates themselves believe things that aren't true.

Once you call someone corrupt, the lesser of two evils, responsible for the deindustrialization of the country and for high minority incarceration rates even though the person wasn't in office to vote on those issues, insinuating their charitable foundation might be money laundering, that they're unqualified for office when clearly they are, that they're only running because they're a woman or PoC and have no convictions, can't be trusted, isn't a real progressive, is immoral, racist or sexist, likes to grab women, etc., it's almost impossible to then say, never mind, please vote for that person.