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The quiet death of the "white Bernie Bro" attack

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Carl Beijer
Aug 16, 2019
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Bernie Sanders faced ferocious criticism in the media throughout the 2016 primaries – and central to that critique was what The Washington Post called Bernie Sanders’ big black-voter problem. Black voters, we were told, decisively rejected Sanders’ politics – and, by extension, left flank challenges to the Democratic establishment. And the proof was in …

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