Cool I didn't know Bernie Sanders was the tool of fascists. Here I was thinking he was a nice grandpa trying to get me medical coverage (medicare for all) for my cancer diagnosis. Man it's a good thing I found out I've been indirectly supporting fascism all along. What should I do now?
Sanders is known for being fairly rigid about his political principles. The trouble is that he does not recognize that a key such principle is
solidarity, especially when it is getting plainer every day how seriously the republic is under threat from fascists, both foreign and domestic.
Being a much-needed voice in the wilderness for social democracy is not something I hold against him. Being a divisive force in the party - now is really not the time. Later, when we are not manning an anti-maga bucket brigade, we have the luxury to have a serious discourse about rolling back the damage done since before Reagan, and perhaps moving on to sell voters on social-democratic ideals whose time has almost come.
So, he is open to charges of being what Leninists termed a useful idiot, abetting the authoritarians by drawing votes away from the only bloc big enough to counter what the GOP has become. That picture of him wearing mittens and a pout at the inauguration underscores the problem.