2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who's going to step up and apologize? [View all]BainsBane
(53,029 posts)in such quarters is astronomical. The point, however, has to be to do so in order to advance her prospects in the GE because the fact is Bernie is finished. He would need 81.5% of the remaining delegates, and considering he has proven unable to reach 50% in most states, that isn't going to happen.
As for candidates' being responsible for their online posters: the issue with the Sanders campaign is that legions of Sanders supporters, including those on DU, have felt a compulsion to defend any charge against any Sanders supporter anywhere. Toward that end, they insulted Dolores Huerta, among many others. I had a friend from grad school who works on Mexican and Borderlands history tell me that Huerta's claims "never happened." And you can look at my transparency page for a hide on the subject here on DU. The people who insisted Huerta was a liar were not in that room, but they assumed those associated with Sanders had to be right simply because of their support for that candidate. Incidents like that have been repeated multiple times throughout this primary election cycle.