The “Bernie Bros” Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquerading as Journalism and Social Activism
The concoction of the “Bernie Bro” narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic — and a journalistic disgrace. It’s intended to imply two equally false claims: (1) a refusal to march enthusiastically behind the Wall Street-enriched, multiple-war-advocating, despot-embracing Hillary Clinton is explainable not by ideology or political conviction, but largely if not exclusively by sexism: demonstrated by the fact that men, not women, support Sanders (his supporters are “bros”); and (2) Sanders supporters are uniquely abusive and misogynistic in their online behavior. Needless to say, a crucial tactical prong of this innuendo is that any attempt to refute it is itself proof of insensitivity to sexism if not sexism itself (as the accusatory reactions to this article will instantly illustrate).
It’s become such an all-purpose, handy pro-Clinton smear that even consummate, actual “bros” for whom the term was originally coined — straight guys who act with entitlement and aggression, such as Paul Krugman — are now reflexively (and unironically) applying it to anyone who speaks ill of Hillary Clinton, even when they know nothing else about the people they’re smearing, including their gender, age, or sexual orientation. Thus, a male policy analyst who criticized Sanders’ health care plan “is getting the Bernie Bro treatment,” sneered Krugman. Unfortunately for the New York Times Bro, that analyst, Charles Gaba, said in response that he’s “really not comfortable with [Krugman’s] referring to die-hard Bernie Sanders supporters as ‘Bernie Bros'” because it “implies that only college-age men support Sen. Sanders, which obviously isn’t the case.”
It is indeed “obviously not the case.” There are literally millions of women who support Sanders over Clinton. A new Iowa poll yesterday shows Sanders with a 15-point lead over Clinton among women under 45, while one-third of Iowa women over 45 support him. A USA Today/Rock the Vote poll from two weeks ago found Sanders nationally “with a 19-point lead over front-runner Hillary Clinton, 50 percent to 31 percent, among Democratic and independent women ages 18 to 34.” One has to be willing to belittle the views and erase the existence of a huge number of American women to wield this “Bernie Bro” smear.
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/31/the-bernie-bros-narrative-a-cheap-false-campaign-tactic-masquerading-as-journalism-and-social-activism/?comments=1#comments
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They're REAL, i tells ya! Real!
And so were "obama boys", of course.
http://www.salon.com/2008/04/14/obama_supporters/
it's fine to use with your online life, lol, but people with lives talk like real people instead. 
And yes, it's a term which was likely coined by online feminists to drive discussions about Hillary's weaknesses as a candidate into INSTEAD discussions about misogyny and how unfair voters are being towards her.
do a word search for those terms! 
I am not the white though. I am definitely not affluent. But my father did drive a Volvo for many years so maybe?! 
you are doomed!!!! 
My father let me drive it all around the south my senior in college while I interviewed at various graduate schools.
Oh, gods, maybe I am a Bernie Bro!!!
go forth and sing the praises of the Third Way and sin no more......
thread.........and it ain't no BernieBro who posted it........... 
She attempted the same thing when she ran against Obama in '08 with the "Obama Boys"
[link:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/8/1481627/-WOW-Before-the-sexist-Bernie-Bro-Clinton-supporters-created-the-sexist-Obama-boy-No-seriously|
My heart cries out as I weep, in profound woe, these bitter tears of anguish for ourselves, our mothers, sisters, and daughters, oh Hillary, Hillary, why, why, why do these misogynist self loathing berniebro women hate us so?
Spot on.
Sid
