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Bernie Sanders Simply Cannot Plead Ignorance or Innocence Anymore

Gayle Leslie
5 min readFeb 18, 2020

His acolytes are a danger to Democrats.

Nina Turner was the president of Bernie Sanders’ PAC — ‘Our Revolution’ — before taking over his campaign

The singular prime directive of all Democrats must be to end the Trump reign of terror.

This past weekend it was easy to tell that Sanders’ supporters were feeling particular angst about the undercurrents of his campaign, because they were preternaturally aggressive — or passive aggressive — depending on the personality type. There is something acutely twisted about those strangers who show up uninvited to tell me that they are only informing me, for my own good, of how ‘nasty’ — and that is the most polite word these interlopers use — I am being by vetting Bernie Sanders at all, or by writing a less ‘distasteful’ assessment of his opposition. Some literally tell me that it would be ‘better for me’ and more ‘woke’ of me to stop being mean to Bernie. That is how clueless this tribe is, they don’t know that you don’t ‘make friends and influence people’ by telling other actual adults that they don’t have the sense to know what is good for them.

One special lady told me — for my ‘own good’ she says — that I am ‘just like Trump.’ Yep.

Personally, I prefer the raging fools, at least they are honest about their own dysfunction. These truest of fragile ‘snowflakes’ are just deeply troubled and I can say it, just ‘icky.’

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Gayle Leslie
Gayle Leslie

Written by Gayle Leslie

Author of “Dwelling in the Vast Divine.1 & .2" Political consultant, policy wonk. https://www.amazon.com/Dwelling-Vast-Divine-1-Serialized-Memoir/dp/1495477746

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