Inside Bernie-world's war on Beto O'Rourke (2018)

[TomCADem]

You have to keep in mind that the most notable thing about BS is not that his campaign is based on ideas, rather BS has created an ongoing platform to launch false attacks on Democrats. It is not just Biden. It is not just Warren. BS's goal is try to make everyone more unelectable than he is. BS does not build a movement. He destroys it and tries to replace it with a personality cult centered around him.

since he himself admits that he has no idea how much his Medicare Fo


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/inside-bernie-world-s-war-beto-o-rourke-n951016

WASHINGTON — Forces loyal to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are waging an increasingly public war against Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, the new darling of Democratic activists, as the two men weigh whether to seek the party's presidential nomination in 2020.

The main line of attack against O'Rourke is that he isn't progressive enough — that he's been too close to Republicans in Congress, too close to corporate donors and not willing enough to use his star power to help fellow Democrats — and it is being pushed almost exclusively by Sanders supporters online and in print.

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That explains the rush to define him in negative terms.

Sanders supporters insist there's nothing coordinated about the attacks on O'Rourke and note Sanders himself and his top allies have said nothing about O'Rourke. Sanders' is an unusually decentralized political world, with a loose collection of activists and operatives who often take actions without direction or approval from any central authority. But they acknowledge that there's increasing public examination of his record.