Busted: turns out the most toxic “Bernie Bro” trolling is coming from within the Bernie Sanders campaign itself
Bernie Sanders keeps swearing that the infamous “Bernie Bros” and other similar vicious trolls aren’t actually supporters of his campaign. This is laughable, considering some of Sanders’ own top campaign advisers such as David Sirora have been leading the online trolling charge in plain sight. But now one of Bernie’s campaign staffers has been caught doing something far, far worse.
The Daily Beast is reporting that a Bernie Sanders campaign regional field director named Ben Mora has been tweeting horrifyingly sexist and homophobic remarks about Sanders’ Democratic primary competitors. The offensive remarks include calling Amy Klobuchar “chunky” and asserting that Pete Buttigieg is the product of botched conversion therapy.
To be clear, this guy isn’t just some Bernie Sanders supporter – he works for Bernie Sanders. He was using his personal Twitter account to post these awful tweets, but there’s no doubt that he’s a Bernie supporter, because he’s a Bernie employee.
Because this is such an extreme instance – and importantly because the guy got caught – we suspect Bernie Sanders will either fire this guy or publicly rebuke him. But this isn’t some anomaly. Sanders has essentially hired professional trolls to run his campaign from top to bottom, and whenever he’s asked about their atrocious behavior, he emboldens them by trying to blame it on outsiders. Are we supposed to be surprised that one of Bernie’s employees took things this far? Sanders has got to clean house and start over with a legitimate campaign staff in place of the troll shop he’s currently running.
