Rise of extremist supporters causing a rift in the party
In Nevada, Trump-like anger boils over at state convention
Democratic candidate must step up, condemn supporters' actions

A lot of Democrats don't want to admit it, but Donald Trump isn't the only presidential candidate playing with fire and recklessly courting an angry mob.
For the latest round of curse-word hurling, chair throwing, social-media stalking and conspiracy-theory swapping, look no further than the supporters of Bernie Sanders.

The episode had the reek of Trump rallies, where threats, insults and sucker punches to defend the presumptive Republican nominee have been common. Yet looking back at the hundreds of Sanders supporters who descended on a Clinton rally in East Los Angeles earlier this month to intimidate her supporters, making one little girl cry, it now seems inevitable that the same kind of violent eruption would afflict those "feeling the Bern."

One would think that Sanders, the man who continues to insist he's the only Democrat who can beat Trump, would speak up forcefully to condemn the actions of his supporters in Nevada. If nothing else, it's the right thing to do.
Instead, much like Trump when pressed about the violent streak within his ranks, he has largely weaseled out of his responsibilityto make it clear to his supporters that this is not acceptable behavior.

A Virgin Islands superdelegate who was supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has flipped his support to front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Emmett Hansen II, the Democratic National Committee superdelegate for the Virgin Islands, originally backed the Vermont senator but decided to switch after learning more about Clinton's plans for the U.S. territories, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.

"There are no more windmills to joust against and no more mountains to climb," Hansen said. "It comes down to one thing: what's best for the Virgin Islands, to be fully incorporated into the United States."

(I admit I thought a good bit came from Jeff Weaver.)

But the NV azzholery and Sanders doubling down on attacks vs the Dem Party have made it pretty clear, Sanders is just an arrogant jerk who thinks his youknowwhat doesn't stink. He's actively lying to his supporters now, and fanning the flames, all in service to his ego.

He's way beyond "not helping" and deep into serious damage now.

But I would say the true thing that really hooked me was when the bird landed on his podium. It was the first time that something political actually moved me, and it moved me to the point where I cried.... I'm a person that has a military dad, my parents got divorced, my grandmother had Parkinson's -- I just had this very rough, challenging childhood where I was just kind of sad. It was such a sad childhood.... I was just a tough kid. I only cry in a funeral for family, and all of a sudden I'm 29, I see a man who I'm already just all about his campaign, and then the bird lands on his thing, and people's reaction -- I connected. I connected to a moment with all those people about something just way different.

This is from one of the guys who sent mails to Roberta Lange on Saturday after the Nevada convention and whom Rolling Stone has 'tracked' down and interviewed (he's the last of the three). When other Bernie-supporters earlier have 'waxed poetically' about this damned bird I must admit that I have rolled my eyes, but not with this guy. It really ment something to him, something profound, and it got him engaged in politics which can never be a bad thing.

What he did, sending the mail, was wrong and yet I think his reasoning for doing it sounds legit, almost understandable and not a bit self-righteous. Here's a young man who for the first time in his life has become engaged in politics, even gave up his day-job to campaign for Bernie Sanders. I only hope he won't end up loathing or be too disillusioned about politics, when he realizes that his preferred politician never made it neither to the nomination nor to the presidency.

I doubt he will blame Sanders, but I do. He, Sanders, has owed to his supporters, not least to the young, sometimes naive, new-to-politics supporters, to be honest - also about his actual chances of winning - but he seems to have been more fixated on himself. He could have build a movement of engaged youngsters, could have nurtured, trained and educated them in participating actively in politics ... if only he had cared to.

We hit 200 before I could add this.   We were talking about media coverage changing for Sanders-

Wonkette has been officially neutral in the Democratic primary, until now.  (We know angry commenters; Wonkette says it has been neutral but has been a reliable source of bought-and-paid-for neoliberal corporate piece of sh!t one-percenter shilling for a mass murderer who will be arrested for "emails" any day now. Fair enough!)

But if your "revolution" includes disinformation, aimed to rile up your supporters, that would make Pravda and Ronald Reagan blush, you can make like your healthcare, and keep it!

Hence it looks good for Jillary.