https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2020/02/new-hampshire-plus-beefsteak-bernie-bros.html
Yikes.
«The elections that brought Hitler to power offer us a profound warning from the past. The left-most German party was the KDP; we may consider those voters the Bernie Bros of their time and place. They concentrated not on defeating Hitler but on weakening the center.
Believe it or not, the prospect of a Hitler victory appealed to many within the KDP. They said: “After Hitler, our turn.” It didn’t occur to those naive ninnies that Hitler would smash any mechanism that might give them a turn.
Once Hitler consolidated power, a surprising number of KDP rank-and-filers decided to join the Nazi party. They were derisively labeled “Beefsteak Nazis” — brown on the outside, red on the inside. Before not too many years had passed, the browning had gone all the way to the marrow.
I wonder how many Bernie Bros have the potential to turn into Beefsteak Nazis? Quite a few, I’d reckon. Consider the example of H.A. Goodman.»
Who?
This guy: https://thedailybanter.com/2018/04/23/ha-goodman-now-supports-trump/ (Maybe he’s an outlier, maybe… not so much of an outlier?)
God, I will never understand partisan voters. It’s like the only thing that matters is if the President; who will be droning random brown people in the mid east, using lies to turn countries like Libya from having the highest HDI in Africa into a slave market, supporting Al Qaeda’s bid to take over Syria, handing trillions of dollars to the criminals on while street and helping them foreclose on poor people, letting health insurance and pharma lobbyists decide healthcare policy, decrease the pathetically meager safety net we already have while increasing spending on endless wars, the privatization of public goods and services, the shipping of good jobs overseas, the stagnating of wages for 40 years, killing off unions, a steady decrease in life expectancy, and the categorical refusal to even consider prosecuting anyone in the top 1% no matter how many crimes they commit…. is if they have a D or an R after their name.
Yeah, it’s Bernie’s fault that the ruling class has created a new gilded age with bipartisan support leaving the vast majority of the country unable to afford a $500 emergency. He might as well be Hitler.
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