Political Twitter is made up of several factions that spend most of each and every day screaming at each other about why they're right, most of the time without a single policy mentioned. The factions pretty much range from the "we even hate Bernie Sanders" Left-Wing, then to the "Democrats are the only hope we have! #Resistance" and you can even end up at the Alt-Right/White Nationalist part of Twitter if you're brave enough. There are also, of course, the Bernie Sanders supporters, Republicans and Libertarians sprinkled across the spectrum.
For this article, we're focusing on the anti-Bernie #StillWithHer crowd, who have made an extremely absurd claim. This delightful group of people cannot argue on policy, hence the constant "Bernie is a Russian Puppet" or claims such as the ones mentioned above, which are completely unfounded and are not based within reality.
As we here at Progressive Political News are evidence-based, we of course have to bring up the fact that Congressman Steve Scalise's shooter was a Sanders fan. Scalise was shot in June 2017 while practicing with fellow Republican's for the upcoming yearly Congressional Baseball Game against the Democrats, a reprehensible act that goes against everything Sanders himself and his supporters truly stand for. To put it simply, the shooter, James Hodgkinson, is a left-wing terrorist. Hodgkinson used violence for a political gain as he wanted to "terminate the Republican Party", so therefore, this makes him a terrorist.
As for the "White Nationalist Sanders supporters" trope, it is simply unfounded. The only thing the people that are making these claims could potentially point to is the fact that Alt-Right personalities such as Richard Spencer is hoping to court Bernie Sanders, as they aim to twist their pro-white message into an anti-capitalist one. Spencer said, "I support National Health Care" before adding, "becoming Alt-Right means... we have duties to our fellow [white] people, and the trillions spent in insane wars, I would much rather spend that on something that is immediately useful to whites.
To the twisted mind which may try to spin this story as a "Sanders and White Nationalists are in cahoots" style argument against progressives, this may think it affirms their stance. Although what Spencer previously mentioned may sound a tad Sanders-like, apart from when you take off the partisan goggles and really delve into the topic.
As the Raw Story piece mentions, this is exactly the same as previous fascist movements throughout history have done, who pretend to offer what are seen as socialist ideals in order to gain the support of middle-class workers. However, this is where the story really gets interesting.
The interesting part is actually a single quote from alt-right, Identity Evropa spokesman Eli Mosley as he laughably said, "You want to know why there's so much PTSD, drug abuse, suicide among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? Because they come back and they don't know why. 'Why were we there and why did my friends die?' The answer is, no more of these wars - Jewish wars!"
Now, do me a little favour, go onto Bernie Sanders' Wikipedia page and scroll down to the section titled "religion and heritage", please. Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Sanders even attended Yeshiva during his Sunday schooling at a Hebrew school, has had a bar mitzvah during his younger days, has even previously been associated with Youth Zionist movements also in his younger days, found himself in hot water with the ACLU when Sanders, as Mayor of Burlington, allowed a Chabad public menorah to be placed at City Hall, which is public land. Sanders also performed the Jewish religious ritual of blessing Hanukkah candles. Bernie's brother Larry described the pair as being "very pleased to be Jews, but didn't have a strong belief in God." This has led to Bernie and Larry being described by Jimmy Kimmel as "culturally Jewish."
What's the point, you may ask. Our point is this: Why on earth would Bernie Sanders join forces with the white nationalist movement, who blame the wars of George Bush and Dick Cheney as "Jewish wars", when the Sanders family has Jewish roots, it doesn't make the tiniest bit of sense. As for Sanders somehow being accepting of any white nationalist support, go back and look at his statements and even Tweets around the time of the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally, and you will quickly see how farcical this assumption is.
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