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Progressives Are Becoming Infuriated With Bernie Sanders

Whenever Bernie Sanders is attacked on policy or either being supposedly racist and sexist, - still no explanation as to how - his supporters are by his side more often than not. However, two recent statements that Sanders made has drawn the ire of even his most loyal supporters.

Firstly, with the subject of immigrant child separation and abolishing ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) dominating news headlines, even most centrist Democrats and Sanders supporters are united in their wishes to abolish ICE, but Sanders couldn't join the club when asked the question by Jake Tapper during a CNN interview.

When asked by Jake Tapper if he would join the calls of fellow Democrats such as Cynthia Nixon to abolish ICE, he tapped danced around the question, instead saying that Trump and Congress should work to make sure that what we see today with the separation of children and their parents is put to an end. His supporters didn't agree with this stance, with arguments breaking out between them as some who saw this as a deal breaker and others who wanted to put pressure on Sanders in order to make him change his mind - Sanders has since come out in favour of abolishing ICE, but with the caveat of passing comprehensive immigration reform and restructuring the agencies that enforce immigration laws.


The second instance in which Sanders had ticked off progressives surrounds Sarah-Huckabee Sanders being ousted from a Red Hen restaurant, with conservatives likening the situation to segregation and Jim Crow with black people, even going as far to say that there will be "Republican-only water fountains".

Failing to see that the reason statements such as these are ridiculous is because of the fact that back in the 50's and 60's, black people couldn't help the skin colour that they're born with, but anyone of these idiots have the freedom to form their own political opinions and support whoever they choose to. It's also not the case that Sarah-Huckabee Sanders was kicked out simply for being a Republican, she was asked to leave due to being part of a presidential administration which is currently taking part in the separation of immigrant families and forcing kids as young as four years old to appear in court, and treating them as criminals because something something... MS-13.

Bernie Sanders sided on the 'wrong' side of this debate according to many of his supporters, arguing that the Trump administration deserve what they get, but those who agreed with Sanders' stance on this issue claimed that denying service to Trump officials is a slippery slope when it comes to individual freedoms and that liberals and progressives cannot simply think that they're the defenders of all that is moral and righteous.

In the future, when Sanders' detractors, be them centrist Democrats or conservatives, attempt to paint his support as a cult that worship at his feet, remember these two instances which show that if Bernie chooses to veer off into areas in which his supporters disagree with him, they have no problem whatsoever calling him out when he is perceived to be incorrect.
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