Matt Taibbi Is Going Full Bernie Bro...On Bernie Sanders? [View all]

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'Bernie Sanders’ movement has spawned a militant form of leftist “true believers” who are so dedicated to the ideals laid out by Sanders that they will now apparently turn on Sanders himself if he shows any ideological flexibility. As I argued in my column last week, these true believers have derailed Sanders’ campaign and made their leader unelectable — a spectacular own goal that they are unfortunately incapable of recognizing.

The latest true believer to turn on the leader himself is none other than Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi. Taibbi has spent the past three years destroying his journalistic credibility by denying Russiagate and opposing Trump’s impeachment despite mountains of publicly availably, highly incriminating evidence. He has waged an unrelenting war on centrist Democrats alongside leftist ideologies like Glenn Greenwald and Michael Tracey, and covered the Democratic primary as if it were a giant conspiracy created to rob Bernie Sanders of the nomination.

After it became clear Sanders could not win the primary, Taibbi is in full meltdown mode over the implosion of the campaign, and has now turned on Sanders himself for not being sufficiently militant.

Sanders, according to Taibbi, didn’t lose the primary to Joe Biden because African Americans decided he wasn’t the best candidate to beat Trump, or working class Americans believed Joe Biden was more likely to get vital legislation passed as a President. It was because Sanders had the temerity to apologize for his militant supporters’ repellent behavior.'

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/matt-taibbi-is-going-full-bernie


Article referenced. Snipped the part where he slung the 'Biden senile' and 'Biden bubble wrapped' post Super Tuesday smears, smears which he fell hard for, so hard he thought the debate would turn things around.


Bernie’s Last Chance

'Bernie shouldn’t let them. If this “quarantine debate” is to be his last stand, he should make it count. As has now been proven over and over, politicians like Sanders gain nothing by playing nice with the Pelosis and Bidens of the world. It buys neither policy considerations nor even temporary immunity from dirty tricks and slander.

Sunday night, he should hammer the meandering Biden as a symbol of the party’s determination to avoid necessary change. He should make sure the debate audience understands that in this moment of extreme crisis, Democrats threw their institutional might behind a man whose handlers appear afraid to let him outside more than a few minutes at time.

If this is the way the 2020 primary race ends, it’s pure black comedy, and for the sake of everything he’s tried to accomplish in the last four years, Sanders has to make sure audiences don’t see him as part of the punch line. There may not be time left to win. But he can at least stop apologizing for trying, and restore his movement’s dignity for the sake of the next person who tries to push it up the hill."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-debate-go-out-swinging-967462/