There are
Sandernistas, not all of them young or uneducated — some, far from — who detest
and fear Clinton more than they do Trump, and who have committed themselves to
writing "Bernie Sanders" on their ballots when Hillary Clinton is the
Democratic candidate.
They are,
some of them, hardcore, beyond argument. How many are in that zone I don't
know.
For
them, Clinton represents all the sins of capitalism, all the suffering
inflicted on their families, all the rip-offs and displacements, going back
generations. Their scream at Clinton is a scream at helplessness, poverty and
pain.
This
reaction drowns out Trump, who barely registers for them as the existential
threat to us all that he is.
For
them, Clinton is all that's gone wrong and all that's gone wrong matters more than
what will go wrong if there is
such an abomination as a President Trump.
Bernie, if he wants to leave a positive legacy, and the
kernel of a sane movement for social change, ought to address these supporters directly.
He's said, and I believe sincerely, he doesn’t want to help elect Trump. Let
him then make the case that to write in his name if Clinton is the candidate is
a really bad idea.
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