Thread by @leonardpierce

So.

For five years now, Bernie Sanders' opponents have described him as not just excessively focused on white voters -- not just racially insensitive -- not just, well, RACIST -- but as UNIQUELY racist amongst Democratic candidates.

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Instead, he was delivered a victory in the beating heart of white America by a coalition of working-class men and women of color, many of them immigrants to this country who were being given the first chance of their entire lives to take part in the democratic process.

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It is this specific victory -- of satellite caucuses formed by his volunteer's deliberate outreach to communities of color in America's 4th-whitest state -- that the Democratic leadership is challenging, and that the Buttigeig campaign is trying to take away.

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The Sanders campaign has been deliberate, thoughtful, intentional, sensitive, and successful in its outreach to working-class communities of color. I know it because I, as a working-class white man, have been part of it, and because it is yielding obvious results.

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People from communities of color, individually and organizationally, are flocking to the Sanders campaign. Meanwhile, the Warren campaign, so praised for its talk of diversity and empowerment, is hemorrhaging support in those same communities.

politico.com/news/2020/02/0…

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Buttigeig's campaign, too, has run on representing a new, aspirational America for marginalized groups, but is anathema to the working class and has next to 0% support from people of color. Buttigeig himself struggles to even talk to them.

nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/…

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Sanders has faced constant accusations that he isn't a Democrat, while his opponents include Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg, both of whom were actual Republicans for decades (in Bloomberg's case, as an elected official), and neither of whom catch hell about it.

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And all of a sudden, with Sanders making a huge push for viability as the Democratic candidate, crucially on the strength of working-class voters of color, none of these people who have been calling him a racist for half a decade, have a goddamn thing to say about it.

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I'm not expecting a mea culpa or apology or admission of guilt from any of these disingenuous bilkers, propagandists, and hustlers. That's not how the world works. I expect voters to behave sensibly and get on board for the big win, and for these grifters to fade away.

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We forgive. But we don't forget. The time is coming. Remember who lied to you, because they're going to do it again and again, not just until we win, but after. They're never not looking for the next brand of snake oil to sell. But we ain't buying.

#sanders2020

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