During what may have been the entire period, and then following the United States presidential election of 2016, some of the push against Bernie Sanders—and his supporters—have been to say that he is not even a Democrat.
It is the fact that Bernie Sanders is not officially affiliated with the Democratic Party, even though he caucuses with the Democrats in Congress, and the count for Senate Democrats is typically recorded as 48. (That is, 46 officially affiliated with the Democratic Party and two independents—Maine’s Angus King and the junior U.S. senator from Vermont—to bring the Democrats’ total to 48.)
I never took this seriously. (Come to think—it’s a bonus.) But, I came across at a discussion site people who have found this from Good, Loyal Democrats—really the people who supported (and are #StillWithHer) for nomination Hillary Clinton—to be arrogant, not credible, and not persuasive.
I have my own theory. And I wrote the following:
It is the fact that Bernie Sanders is not officially affiliated with the Democratic Party, even though he caucuses with the Democrats in Congress, and the count for Senate Democrats is typically recorded as 48. (That is, 46 officially affiliated with the Democratic Party and two independents—Maine’s Angus King and the junior U.S. senator from Vermont—to bring the Democrats’ total to 48.)
I never took this seriously. (Come to think—it’s a bonus.) But, I came across at a discussion site people who have found this from Good, Loyal Democrats—really the people who supported (and are #StillWithHer) for nomination Hillary Clinton—to be arrogant, not credible, and not persuasive.
I have my own theory. And I wrote the following:
The people saying Bernie Sanders not being a Democrat means one thing: they want to control him.
That is why they—the Democratic Party Establishment, the pundits, the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voters who voted the nomination to Hillary Clinton—push this narrative.
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