2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Superdelegates should stop whining... [View all]sufrommich
(22,871 posts)times have superdelegates been threatened with a hit list? Stalked,demonized and called obscene names by the super fans of a losing candidate?
http://fortune.com/2016/04/28/clinton-sanders-superdelegates-harassed/
How about threatening to cut a superdelegates tongue out?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107119664
Your candidate knew going in that he was joining a process that includes superdelegates,in fact his campaign manager is one of the architects of the superdelegates system:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511374709
When your candidate realized he wasn't going to win the nomination by popular vote,he very cynically started trying to flip superdelegates to his side:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/03/28/sanderss-plan-to-win-nomination-by-flipping-super-delegates-is-a-long-shot/
Now that that doesn't seem to be happening,he's ramping up rhetoric that demonized them to the extent that some of his supporters are reacting violently while he looks the other way.
This attempt to paint real,nasty harassment as deserved is sickening. The fact that the Sanders campaign is now trying to paint this as "they asked for it" is sickening and pathetically desperate.