2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This primary solidified the Log-Cabinization of the Social Left [View all]Squinch
(51,059 posts)early on. They were giving constructive criticism when there was plenty of time for BS to listen, absorb, and turn the situation around. Same with women.
If BS and his followers had listened and addressed any of the criticisms, his whole campaign would have been a very different story. Instead they insisted that women and people of color were wrong about their own experience, and the BS supporters knew better.
I think many people, myself included, originally liked much of BS's message. It was when I noticed his stubborn refusal to address social issues in any meaningful way that I began to realize he was not what I thought he was. It was what turned me off with him.
If he had been ignorant at the beginning of his campaign, but then listened and responded meaningfully, I would have had no problem. I probably would have ended up supporting him. But instead he and his followers said to me and countless others, "You don't know what you are talking about. I know what is best for women. I know what is best for people of color."
And this thread is his followers holding onto the same rank ignorance and doubling down on it.