Charles Pierce wonders if Sanders attracts the Democratic equivalent of the incel boys

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. But Bernie's "fringe element" seems to be fringier than anyone else's.

I suspect that the reason he attracts bros and incel types and other people (mostly men, it seems) who spend a lot of time ranting on the Internet is that he himself seems angry most of the time. Anger attracts more anger, and Bernie is almost as relentlessly angry and negative as Trump himself. Angry candidates tend to have angry supporters. Some may be bots and trolls, but there are plenty of real people who are taking out their anger on the other candidates (for being insufficiently pure, I guess) - remember when Bernie fans tried to disrupt the DNC convention because they didn't like the outcome?