Regarding Bernie Sanders being a millionaire.

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34. BS's public framing of his narrative has shifted now that he is a member

of one of the rarefied groups that he used to deride with contempt every time he gave his stump speech.

Think Progress furnished the context in the video. It used to be BS's standard fare to include millionaires in his invective. Did he think voters didn't notice the shift in his rhetoric?

It could be argued that any candidate truly interested in unity probably would not have hired a number of senior campaign members who have virulently attacked the Democratic Party and/or endorsed and voted for third party candidates.

As per Mediaite:

In his letter, Sanders does not factually dispute either story, but calls out CAP President Neera Tanden by name for “maligning my staff and supporters and belittling progressive ideas,” as he puts it.

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As Tanden noted in an email to The Times, and the site itself notes, ThinkProgress is editorially independent from CAP, and while Sanders is obviously free to write whatever letters he wishes, complaining about commentary to a website’s financial backers could seem heavy-handed, or worse.

And it could be argued that ThinkProgress’ criticism are similar in character to the sort of pressure Sanders wanted to exert when he endorsed the idea of primarying then-President Barack Obama in 2011.

Sanders might have been better served writing out a rebuttal to the “smears” he describes than trying to chill criticism, however little he appreciates it.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/bernie-sanders-writes-complaint-letter-because-thinkprogress-criticized-him-for-being-a-millionaire/