I just LOVE Bernie Sanders for saying this. It is so unsexist and so unmisogynistic!

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190. His point was "spot on"

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in communicating that women and people of color should have no say in the political process. To claim Clinton ran on noting but being a woman is a blatant lie, one he has manufactured to try to ingratiate himself with the white male voter he continues to believe matters more than everyone else.

That he remains critical of Clinton for daring to run while being a woman while Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself shows that he has far more contempt for the Democratic Party and its voters than he has concern for Wall Street reform or the relationship between public service and the corporate elite.

He also never bothered to think through ANY policy on Wall Street reform himself and told the NY Daily News it shouldn't be expect to know any details since he wasn't CEO of Citigroup. Clinton had a far more substantive and extensive policy proposal than Sanders in that regard. What she didn't do was use the banks as a rhetorical scapegoat. She in fact didn't scapegoat anyone. She focused on solutions, something that has never interested Sanders.

Rhetoric constitutes the entirety of Bernie's political engagement. He doesn't develop or pass policy. He gives speeches. He communicated precisely what he meant. He has been making those same comments for decades, from the time he first sought to stop the first woman from becoming governor of VT in the early 1980s. His position has not changed since then.

We just saw an election in which white nationalist identity politics triumphed, and he is still angry that the women and people of color who comprise the majority of Democrats refused to pay deference to him. He continues to revel in some delusion that he is part of the white working class (as he indicated in a recent tweet), when he is a New York Jew who has never worked as a laborer in his life. That means he is every bit as much despised by the Trump voters as the people Sanders attacks in the linked article.

And now in the wake of Trump's blatant use of the presidency for self enrichment, he continues to chastise Democrats for representing and seeking to be represented by women and people of color. Someone concerned about the relationship between capital and the state does not focus his contempt on marginalized groups. It turns out his comments were in to a Latina woman who referenced the MA state legislature. He blasted her for daring to even daring to mention she was Latina.

He can vie with Trump for the loyalty of the white male voter all he wants. He won't get mine and these comments demonstrates why he was unable to get the majority of Democratic voters. Clinton's message to women like the Latina Bernie supporter was clear: Never let anyone tell you that you aren't good enough, that you can't rise and be whatever you want.