@gjohnsit Particularly, this snippet from a erstwhile Hillary supporter:

“I’m not necessarily an anti-Bernie guy, especially not when it comes to his policies,” another ex-Clinton staffer, who worked on her campaign’s research team, said. “But he has this self-righteous attitude to himself.

Fucking self-righteous! That's the woke mob and the victim culture. Support Antifa you mush heads. We'll beat you unbelievers into submission!

So, we have Bernie Bros, vintage 2016 and the new, improved multi-racial version of 2020. My, my, how the times have changed--not. MSM / DNC / H. Rodent Clinton, et. al. will insure Mr. Sanders gets no closer to 1600 Pennsylvania than the 40 acre wood.

Jacobin

And Friday, a poll from Pew confirms the trend: only 49% of Sanders supporters are white, compared with 56% of Biden voters, 59% of Harris voters, and a remarkable 71% of Warren voters.

The explicit, constantly invoked basis for the 2016 critique of Sanders on race — his strong support among white voters and weak support among black voters — has completely vanished.

Vice

Polling has continually proven that Sanders’ base is much more diverse than the figure of the Bernie Bro would suggest: An analysis of polling between November 2018 and March 2019 found both that Sanders was more popular among people of color than among white people, and that women supported Sanders just as much as men did, “if not more,” according to Vox. Earlier this month, a Univision Noticias poll found Sanders was the candidate Latino voters favored most after current Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. And The Economist’s latest numbers show Sanders in the number-two spot behind Biden with Hispanic and Black voters.

Vox

“I think we are all just scarred by 2016 at large and would like to prevent that again,” one former Clinton staffer said of the attacks against Sanders.

These former Clinton aides aren’t tearing apart Sanders’s current policy agenda (probably because most major Democratic candidates have essentially adopted it). They’re just saying, here’s a bunch of dirt we had and we would like Sanders to have to deal with if he’s going to run again.

“I’m not necessarily an anti-Bernie guy, especially not when it comes to his policies,” another ex-Clinton staffer, who worked on her campaign’s research team, said. “But he has this self-righteous attitude to himself. If you are not with him you are against him, and I think we are seeing that kind of behavior in the White House, to be honest. And that style is not what we need.”
...
Petkanas gets at the core of these Clinton attacks against Sanders — a widespread belief that Clinton was unfairly targeted in the press, torn to pieces on every vote, posture, and position, whereas Sanders got a pass.

“We just want every candidate to be treated the same. And we don’t want some people to be media darlings,” one of the former Clinton campaign aides told Vox, citing Sanders’s record with immigration and dismissal of identity politics.

“He’s coming into this new race with the same messaging, the same team,” another Clinton aide said. “He hasn’t adapted the messaging to the post-loss world that we live in. Democratic socialism is more popular than ever, but the broader message around institutional racism, he’s still in this ‘identity politics doesn’t matter’ ... saying things that don’t resonate with a lot of people who don’t share his privilege as a cis white man in politics.”

aa @Wally items relayed in this tweet.

NEWS: The Sanders campaign researched whether Warren could be both vice president and treasury secretary at once.

The answer was yes: https://t.co/asT6fCgOKw

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) January 18, 2020

Wasn't aware a VP could also be a cabinet sec; hadn't even thought to consider it. Closest I've seen to this is LBJ's written request to JFK pre-inauguration to head a number of exec agencies, nearly making himself co-president. (Jfk wisely put the letter away in his desk, Lincoln-like, and never responded). I doubt if Bernie is still actively considering EW for VP, while Treasury might still be had if they manage to smooth things over going forward.

Second item in the Intercept article is the reporting that EW held an off-record session with reporters shortly after her private late-2018 meeting with Bernie. Interesting too -- reporters accounts of what she said also differ. So what Bernie said to Liz in the private might have been misconstrued by her; and some reporters then may have misunderstood her comments to them.

Bernie should just take the high road here on out and leave it as Liz honestly misunderstood my remarks and I hold no ill will, to that effect. His backers should try to move on from this soon too, as it's been 3-4 days nonstop. There is so much rich material from Biden to comment on, which David Sirota (Bernie speechwriter) has been trying to get the MSM to focus on. Currently Biden is much more of a threat to Bernie than Liz and could escape unscathed in the primaries for his past decisions in major part b/c all the fire from Bernie backers is directed to Liz.

Because of the video below (posted last night by Humphrey in comments to another essay).I'm back to wondering whether she and/or her handlers have realized they made a big mistake and not just in terms of her candidacy. The last thing they want to see happen is for Bernie to pull off a miracle but they are getting more and more freaked that he may do it, especially if Biden turns out to be a dud. There has also been a tsunami of blowback from leftist feminists portenting quite a rift in the future development of feminism. It doesn't look good for Warren to be considered a saboteur of the #believewomen and #metoo movements (if that's what they are (tip o' the hat to CStMS for suggesting the possiblity that they may be propelled by other than left/liberal grass roots forces).
Maybe she will stop accusing Bernie of sexism? I don't think Biden will be helped by her as VP on his ticket because she's become so toxic to the left.

But I'm also kinda freaked by the sudden new scheduling of the two town halls before the Iowa Caucus. Bernie is on the first night and no doubt will be baited and hounded. And on the second night, there's Biden, Warren and Klobuchar, apparently in that order. Will Warren launch another bombshell against Bernie? I wouldn't be surprised if she taped that private meeting and has a nice doctored out-of-context version of it to release that night. And some videos of Bernie's statements spliced together to make him look like he's anti-feminist and not really progressive on civil rights, etc.

Here's that video:

Warren was eager to leak the smear the day before the debate, and she was eager to talk about it during and after the debate, but now suddenly she doesn’t want to talk about it. Her internal polling must look bad. pic.twitter.com/tZgRynt3fW

— 29 U.S.C. § 157 (@OrganizingPower) January 17, 2020

@Wally Wait 'till Warren says Bernie hit on her.

Actually, I am seriously worried that some accusation will conveniently surface right before the vote ala Clinton/Comey. Clinton and Wasserman Shultz are still breathing, and I feel they would love to do Sanders in. After all it was her turn.

Because of the video below (posted last night by Humphrey in comments to another essay).I'm back to wondering whether she and/or her handlers have realized they made a big mistake and not just in terms of her candidacy. The last thing they want to see happen is for Bernie to pull off a miracle but they are getting more and more freaked that he may do it, especially if Biden turns out to be a dud. There has also been a tsunami of blowback from leftist feminists portenting quite a rift in the future development of feminism. It doesn't look good for Warren to be considered a saboteur of the #believewomen and #metoo movements (if that's what they are (tip o' the hat to CStMS for suggesting the possiblity that they may be propelled by other than left/liberal grass roots forces).
Maybe she will stop accusing Bernie of sexism? I don't think Biden will be helped by her as VP on his ticket because she's become so toxic to the left.

But I'm also kinda freaked by the sudden new scheduling of the two town halls before the Iowa Caucus. Bernie is on the first night and no doubt will be baited and hounded. And on the second night, there's Biden, Warren and Klobuchar, apparently in that order. Will Warren launch another bombshell against Bernie? I wouldn't be surprised if she taped that private meeting and has a nice doctored out-of-context version of it to release that night. And some videos of Bernie's statements spliced together to make him look like he's anti-feminist and not really progressive on civil rights, etc.

Here's that video:

Warren was eager to leak the smear the day before the debate, and she was eager to talk about it during and after the debate, but now suddenly she doesn’t want to talk about it. Her internal polling must look bad. pic.twitter.com/tZgRynt3fW

— 29 U.S.C. § 157 (@OrganizingPower) January 17, 2020

@Not Henry Kissinger

That's all we are to these people.