Would Bernie supporters still be as terrible if it was Warren vs Sanders?

[psychprofessor]

The media never let Hillary and her surrogates get away with any perceived racial undertones from her campaign in 2008. The media has let Sanders and his campaign get away with racial undertones throughout this entire cycle.

For hypothetical sake - if Obama was running his 2008 campaign now against Bernie, he would go after him for Wall Street and fundraising. I don't think the media would let Bernie off the hook with all of those "the south votes don't matter" mantras.

I also think some of Sanders' supporters traffic in sexism, which wouldn't be an issue if he were running against a male.

But I think underlying all of this is a basic arrogance that Sanders and his supporters have that they are the true purists. And that arrogance would have come across against anyone, no matter who he was running against. Remember, he didn't think Obama was progressive enough in 2012, so essentially, no one is really to the left of Sanders economically in the Senate, so I think he would have attacked whoever was running. It jus happened to be Clinton this time.