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I suppose that's what I was getting at. I was trying to communicate to TCK that despite disagreements on the left, leftists are generally going to gravitate towards the Dems because they're more likely to propose policy that appeals to us. So more often than not we'd take the Dem candidate over the GOP candidate regardless of the differences that seem to appear within the party and the left in 2016.Again, I liked Bernie probably 99% as much as I liked Clinton. He was my third choice in the primary (I wasn't super wild about O'Malley either--it was a narrow range), but I wouldn't have had the slightest reservation about voting for him over any of the GOP field. If I was his biggest critic on the left here, I guess that's because very few on the left were critical of him at all.
Still strikes me as strange that people try to portray me as a big Clinton booster and a Bernie critic given how I pretty much saw them the same (and expressed that view many times). If anything, that reflects the massive skew among the WR left (most liberals in the country preferred Clinton, but the WR left was heavily pro-Bernie).
But yeah, to be fair to you you generally seemed to have criticized Bernie's supporters here more than Bernie himself and maybe there is another WR leftist who could be said to be an even bigger critic of Bernie. But you stood out as the guy on the left with the most reservations about the Bernie bro movement in my mind.