When exactly was the Bernie moment ill-fated? Some would say it wasn’t until March 2020; others that it was compromised from the start. For me, it was a Sanders speech in Seattle on Social Security and Medicare. His speech never got off the ground because just as Sanders started to speak, a small group of Black Lives Matters protesters started shouting and took to the podium. It would be the second time in two months that BLM protesters interrupted a Sanders campaign event to speak about police violence, reparations, and the original sin that seems to be baked into the American body politic, racism.
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