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This @jmartNYT and @melbournecoal report is full of quotes from people who seem as though they don’t want to just come out and and say that Bernie Sanders should sit this one out, for any number of reasons. I agree. O’Rourke, for me, isn’t the reason why. nyti.ms/2RfuaCd
This argument sums up the main reason that I feel Sanders shouldn’t run again. Any white challenger to Trump will have to prove her or his bonafides on issues specific to voters of color. Sanders may not have the widest credibility gap, but it’ll be close. slate.trib.al/kkcDfiW
Alluded to but left underexamined in this @jonathanchait argument is the fact that a significant part of Bernie’s support came from white guys unwilling to vote for a woman. Those men may have just found a new white, male candidate to back in Beto. nym.ag/2CCwuLb
More than one in 10 Sanders voters backed Trump in the general. Nearly half of those people disagreed with the idea that "white people have advantages." As others have said before, the racism is the central concern here—not the progressive litmus test. n.pr/2rXi42a
My principal issue with Bernie is, for all his frankness and leftward pushing on economics, he, as @zakcheneyrice put it recently, “echoes a broader tendency in American politics to entice such voters by lying to them about how racist they actually are.” nym.ag/2LChW16
