Nate Silver: Sanders surrogates' attacks on Pete Buttigieg are "extremely weird"

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111. I was speaking to the frequency and intensity of bashing attacks on progressive candidates on DU.

The pattern I see resembles what we had in 2016 and 2018, the gang bashing attacks in particular. It has nothing to do with favorite candidates and more to do with political cant IMHO.

Some of it clearly derives from 3rd party activities to disrupt.

There is legitimate criticism. DU is nothing if not a place for that.

Then there is the over the top onslaught which often seems based more on expressing an attitude than on facts. Likewise there can be similar feeling in the expression of certain defenses.

Then there is the whole family-at-a-wedding syndrome which "He said, She said" doesn't begin to describe.

I prefer it when the dialog is about events and remarks I can research, rather than attribution and hearsay.

In Sander's case I see a man with a distinct political record who has often been attacked for focusing on issues the mainstream party would prefer were not mentioned during any campaign. I make no defense of his recent campaign hires nor anything they may have said.

The pattern of personal attacks on progressive candidates is what concerns me and the degree to which that damages the course of debate and discussion here at DU.