The People's Line

The People's Line

Getting past the Bernie Bro smear

It's a distraction and an energy sink - and it's not a winning fight.

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Carl Beijer
Mar 07, 2020
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Any sufficiently famous politician will attract, among their supporters, a faction of problematic internet trolls. We all know this. And we all know that no one has really shown that Bernie Sanders is unusual in that regard. We get declarations that he is, and we get sordid screencaps - but no one has actually demonstrated that online socialists are uni…

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