We Need to Move Beyond the ‘Bernie Bros’

So much political energy is wasted on a non-issue.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona. Courtesy of Flickr by Gage Skidmore. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

It is often assumed with little evidence that Bernie Sanders is uniquely possessive of a base of devout, loud and angry support. Most commonly known as the “Bernie Bros”, this group of mostly-online Sanders supporters has long been deemed an irreconcilable part of the progressive movement–the theory goes, that…