Bernie Sanders growled while delivering the keynote speech at last weekend’s People Summit in Chicago: “Part of the problem is . . . nobody wants to hurt each other anymore.”
Many pundits on the right jumped at the chance to punch left. From the American Spectator:
Just four days before Hodgkinson’s attempt at a Franz Ferdinand-style kickoff to the revolution he suspected Sanders was asking for, the wild-haired semi-reformed Soviet sympathizer appeared at something called the People’s Summit in Chicago, delivering a broadside of calumnies and bromides so vicious as to sit right at home at a microphone in Caracas or Pyongyang or Havana.”
During an interview with Jane Sanders, Bernie’s wife, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer played a clip of Bernie’s People’s Summit speech where he called Trump “the worst and most dangerous president in the history of our country.” “In retrospect, does he go too far in speaking like that about the president?” Blitzer asked.
But long before the shooting on Wednesday, some of Mr. Sanders’ supporters had earned a belligerent reputation for their criticism of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party and others who they believed disagreed with their ideas. Sanders fans, sometimes referred to derogatorily as “Bernie Bros” or “Bernie Bots,” at times harassed reporters covering Mr. Sanders and flooded social media with angry posts directed at the “corporate media,” a term often used by the senator.
The suspect in the shooting in Virginia put a new spotlight on the rage buried in some corners of the progressive left.”
