The “Bernie Bros” Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquerading as Journalism and Social Activism
(Caveat: Glenn Greenwald is a personal acquaintance of mine. I am a former member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, where we met and we speak occasionally on social media about our rescued pets. Never worked with him, but I have worked - recently, as a matter of fact - for Russ Baker. If I post any article by either, I will point out my friendships with them. I do hate it when some DUers slam Greenwald. He's really not a right-winger in any sense and don't know how anyone could possibly think that. He moved out of the damn country so he could marry David, for Pete's sake.)
It’s become such an all-purpose, handy pro-Clinton smear that even consummate, actual “bros” for which the term was originally coined – straight guys who act with entitlement and aggression, such as Paul Krugman – are now reflexively (and unironically) applying it to anyone who speaks ill of Hillary Clinton, even when they know nothing else about the people they’re smearing, including their gender, age or sexual orientation. Thus, a male policy analyst who criticized Sanders’ health care plan “is getting the Bernie Bro treatment,” sneered Krugman. Unfortunately for The New York Times Bro, that analyst, Charles Gaba, said in response that he’s “really not comfortable with [Krugman’s] referring to die-hard Bernie Sanders supporters as ‘Bernie Bros'” because it “implies that only college-age men support Sen. Sanders, which obviously isn’t the case.”
It is indeed “obviously not the case.” There are literally millions of women who support Sanders over Clinton. A new Iowa poll yesterday shows Sanders with a 15-point lead over Clinton among women under 45, while 1/3 of Iowa women over 45 support him. A USA Today/Rock-the-Vote poll from two weeks ago found Sanders nationally “with a 19-point lead over front-runner Hillary Clinton, 50% to 31%, among Democratic and independent women ages 18 to 34.” One has to be willing to belittle the views and erase the existence of a huge number of American women to wield this “Bernie Bro” smear.
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/31/the-bernie-bros-narrative-a-cheap-false-campaign-tactic-masquerading-as-journalism-and-social-activism/
Psst... Here's Glenn with a few of his (at my last count) 13 rescued animals (mostly dogs, some cats).
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It's highly amusing to me when I'm accused of being a Bernie Bro by Hillary fans on social media, especially since my avatar is of Lara from Dr. Zhivago (where my parents got my given name from). You know, coz so many "Bernie Bros" would have Lara as an avatar. 
stupid establishment people calling "Bernie Bros" a sexist mob.
And this is what I have to say to Randi Weingarten (her account posted one of them):
With your salary you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself for selling out your fellow union members (and I am saying this as someone who has a household income similar to Weingarten's & probably the same types of debts that make us decidedly not 1% when we take off the mortgage and student loans). It is still, however, more money than many folks worldwide ever dream of. As I carefully pay those tuition loans, and send a little to Bernie Sanders every month, I think about all of those people who didn't have the luck we had and are no where near as fortunate as we are. We were lucky to be part of that generation that actually had reasonable tuition, factory jobs, safety nets. Now those things are falling by the wayside. And we have a choice here. We can be greedy and keep as much as we can for ourselves, fellow professionals, and keep propping up the really rich folks - OR we can do the right thing and back the candidate who has the interests of the entire country at heart. It's a very simple choice for me. And I see Randi Weingarten that your choice seems to be easy as well. Your choice is to prop up the rich folks. 
