2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why do people act like trashing Hillary will make us switch to Bernie? [View all]Sancho
(9,067 posts)1.) The bash and trash group are outlier personalities - that individually or in some group dynamic simply like to attack anything establishment; examples are on all political spectrums: Bundy ranchers, OWS, tree-huggers. They all have a mission, but express than mission by attacking others. There's no reasoning with them.
2.) There are paid trolls and operatives - beholden to the GOP, Koch Brothers, or the RW machine. They attack Hillary, not to change minds, but simply to weaken the progression woman who is smart enough and skilled enough to make them fear her. Those pretenders of Bernie support would attack Hillary and would have supported someone else if Biden or whomever were in the race.
3.) There are some who are anti-women, racists, anti-immigrants, or hold special interests (like gun-lovers) who see Hillary as representing their loss of privilege and they are very frustrated. They may be traditional blue-collar Democrats, but can't see past their own world as they like it.
Those are a few of the reasons I can think of for the crazy attacks on Hillary and her supporters. Most of the mainline Democrats won't change their minds because of the attacks. Many hate Bernie because of the association with the attackers.