Every time I read something like this I remember "I think you called me a liar on national TV." 
I also think about something I always expected to happen that never did: Now that Sanders has run and (probably?) concluded two presidential campaigns, I'm realizing I spent five years waiting for a friend who likes him to sit down with me and ask me to vote for him.
I don't mean fighting or subtweeting or just saying "I'm voting for him." I was working for socialist publications and hanging out with Bernie Bros in 2015. I was reachable. I kept waiting for someone to say "Sady, I love Bernie, and I'd love you to vote for him, and here's why."
It genuinely just never happened. Even faint hesitation was met by people icing me out, or screaming at me, or dogpiling me. There was always the assumption that you should already get the appeal, and if you didn't, there was something wrong with you and you had to be silenced.
I lost multiple people I considered friends -- people I was relatively tight with who were suddenly RT'ing "hilarious" memes about my childhood abuse or yelling at me when I asked for help or accusing me of thinking Warren or Clinton was my mommy.
It became self-perpetuating: The experience of Sanders running was so unpleasant that it alienated us from Sanders, so we'd criticize him more often, so we'd get treated like shit even more. Our hesitation was always de facto unreasonable, no matter how many death threats we got.
There were things that may have swayed some people - being welcomed, included, brought into the fold, told we were valuable and that our support would be received gratefully - and those were things the Sanders campaign & the culture around it seemingly never felt beholden to do.
There was more emphasis on winning over shitty almost-alt-right teens and white working-class Trump voters than there was on bringing Democrats and progressives with hesitations over to Sanders. As per this article, that seemingly started from the top.
So when I hear that Sanders was reluctant to go "negative," well, he did. His movement did. Notably on any woman who got in his way, even his closest ally, but also, his campaign was constantly negative -- to people with little power who he should have been trying to win over.
I'm not trying to be passive-aggressive or a jerk here. I know a lot of Bernie supporters who've been kind. I just... never got a sense of outreach from the campaign. Which, reading this, seems intentional. nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/…
I saw Warren and Clinton consciously pick up their agendas from groups I knew & respected. Clinton was the first to vow to overturn Hyde. It wasn't her idea. Warren reversed her stance on FOSTA-SESTA. I won't claim either were perfect, but I got the sense both were listening.
Literally for saying you'd like to receive outreach from a campaign.
