Sanders isn't sexist, but he benefits from sexism

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By Soraya Chemaly / The Washington Post

Unproductive, garbled narratives about gender and power gripped the Democratic presidential primary campaign in recent days.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton criticized her 2016 rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done,” she told the makers of an upcoming Hulu documentary, and in a Hollywood Reporter interview she called out “his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.” That came just after a very public fight between Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., over a conversation they had during a private dinner in 2018. Warren claims that Sanders told her a woman could not beat President Donald Trump. Sanders denies it. Their antagonism migrated online, where two hashtags, #NeverWarren and #WarrenIsASnake, quickly trended.

But both incidents, ultimately, have less to do with whether Sanders is sexist than with how persistently and profoundly uncomfortable many Americans are with the idea of any woman seeking power; especially as president.

One of the ways Warren’s opponents disparage her is by attempting to portray her as Clintonesque; she’s being “Hillaried,” a term coined the moment Warren entered the race. As the field narrows and competition intensifies, supporters of Warren’s rivals have sought to associate her with the “establishment,” painting her as a corporate shill, an out-of-touch elitist, a plodding technocrat, a greedy lawyer; a backstabbing, untrustworthy woman whose individual ambition is harmful to the greater cause of defeating Trump. Republican and Democratic activists alike have used her bungled attempts to address the harm done by her claim of Native American ancestry to tap into long-standing “lying Hillary” narratives.

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Warren a corporate shill? Oh please.

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1. I Disagree

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2. Me too.

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I disagree with the first part, agree with the second

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5. Whatever..