but if the same accusations come from people who are not Hillary, in 2020, it's more than a campaign tactic.

>Masquerading as Journalism and Social Activism
>
>https://theintercept.com/2016/01/31/the-bernie-bros-narrative-a-cheap-false-campaign-tactic-masquerading-as-journalism-and-social-activism/
>
>Of course, individual Sanders supporters hurled vitriol at
>Hillary Clinton and her fans. But there is no empirical
>evidence that it was worse than the abuse in the opposite
>direction. In fact, independent observers have shown the
>difference between the two camps to be negligible or, in the
>case of one study, demonstrated that Clinton backers were
>actually more aggressive.
>

Two wrongs make it ok ? He is not running against Hillary now. Hillary started the birther racism, does that make it ok for Trump to use it ?

>https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/10/selective-feminism-and-the-myth.html
>
>‘Bernie Bros’ and ‘Alt-Left’ Are Propaganda Terms
>Meant to Disempower
>

Bernie fuels the propaganda when he does this.

Some prominent Sanders supporters had been flaming Ms. Harris publicly as the preferred choice of the corporate Democratic establishment against which Mr. Sanders had long railed, a view amplified among Sanders-boosting accounts across social media. “Pre-emptive strike,” one person wrote on the popular SandersForPresident Reddit group, where Sanders fans were sharing details of Ms. Harris’s recent fund-raising swing in the Hamptons with former Hillary Clinton donors. “Start the conversation now, end it before 2020.”

Mr. Sanders assured Ms. Harris that there was no issue, the Democrats familiar with their conversation said. He insisted that he could not control how his followers communicated.

"But two years later, as both senators pursued the party’s 2020 presidential nomination and Ms. Harris returned to the Hamptons to collect campaign checks, Mr. Sanders broadcast an observation of his own after Ms. Harris raised doubts about his “Medicare for all” plan. “I don’t go to the Hamptons to raise money from billionaires,” he tweeted last August, elevating a message that supporters had already been pushing. Thousands of retweets followed."

>https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/15/bernie-bros-and-alt-left-are-propaganda-terms-meant-to-disempower/
>
>How Come So Many Bernie Bros Are Women and People of Color?
>

That doesn't mean Bernie gets a criticism pass. Some of my best friends are Black ? Biden has Black faces, Trump has women, is that all it takes ?

>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/12/17/how-come-so-many-bernie-bros-are-women-and-people-color
>
>It's not a deflection. It has absolutely nothing to do with
>policy.

The recent story in the press about Bernie supporters harassing The Culinary Workers Union is based on the union criticizing his healthcare policy.

>People are mean online...is not breaking news...especially to
>a poster on this board
>
>

If it was just "internet trolls" or people online being mean, what do you call this

"For some perceived Sanders critics, there has been mail sent to home addresses — or the home addresses of relatives. The contents were unremarkable: news articles about the political perils of centrism. The message seemed clear: We know where you live."