Bernie Sanders says that his supporters are not to blame for the fascist/brownshirt clones who managed to shut down Donald Trump’s rally in Chicago.
From Alex Seitz-Wald’s article for the Trump-hating, Sanders-loving MSNBC.com:
When Ja’Mal Green, a prominent black activist and Bernie Sanders supporter in Chicago, saw that Donald Trump was coming to the University of Illinois Chicago, he knew what he had to do. “Everyone, get your tickets to this. We’re all going in!!!! ‪#‎SHUTITDOWN,” he posted on Facebook last week.
Little did he know they actually would shut it down.
Friday night, hundreds of protesters invaded Trump’s rally while thousands more marched outside, leading the candidate to abruptly cancel the event due to safety concerns. The night spun out from there, as angry Trump fans clashed with protesters, who saw the shutdown as a victory.
Protesters interrupt virtually every Trump speech. But what made Chicago different were its scale and the organization behind the effort. Hundreds of young, largely black and brown people poured in from across the city, taking over whole sections of the arena and bracing for trouble.
And as the repeated chants of “Ber-nie” demonstrated, it was largely organized by supporters of Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate who has struggled to win over black voters, but whose revolutionary streak has excited radicals of all colors.
Actually, Mr. Sanders, your supporters were directly to blame. They held up signs with your name and derisively, then triumphantly chanted your name.
You owe everyone who values free speech an honest statement about this, a promise that it is not what you wanted and a public demand that it not be done in your name. Not a lying weasel-worded denial of what is dead-on in front of everyone’s eyes.
Do you think you are better than Donald Trump when it comes to taking responsibility for what supporters do in your name? Do you consider yourself more honest and trustworthy than Hillary Clinton?
Not if you’re pulling crap like this.
