Thread by @eclecticbrotha

I will never stop laughing at the way Berners were smelling their own piss after Nevada while insisting they had nothing to worry about once the race reached South Carolina. In fact, they were so overconfident that even Bernie farted up that "they can't stop us tweet."

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1233502862916964352

Nevada made Berners think they could play Hispanic voters against Southern Black voters. When journos reminded Bernie surrogates the SC primary was mostly Black and Bernie struggled with Black voters, Berners claimed journos were erasing Bernie's Hispanic support. Whaaaaat?

Michael Moore was the first Sanders surrogates I saw promoting this erasure fallacy. Others took up the same mantra as a way to deflect criticism of Sanders inability to build support with Southern Black voters. A week later, Southern Black voters ended Bernie's 2020 campaign.

Long story short: In 2016 and 2020 we warned the Sanders campaign he'd meet his downfall if he didn't learn how to talk to Black voters.

But Sanders and his raggedy surrogates thought "Bernie Marched With MLK" memes would cover it.

Then they fcked around and found out.

Twice.