Sanders to Democrats: Quit it with the ‘identity politics’

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The Blaze:

Onetime Democratic presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called out the Democratic Party over the weekend for engaging in “identity politics,” arguing that doing so is not helping to expand the party umbrella.

 

This comes after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the first female nominee of a major political party in the U.S., failed to secure enough electoral votes to win the presidency. Throughout the election, Clinton campaigned with the slogan, “I’m with her,” along with the phrase, “If fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in.”

 

But Sanders, who came in second to Clinton during the Democratic primaries, said playing the “woman card” just doesn’t make the cut with middle America.

 

“It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman, vote for me.’ That is not good enough,” the self-avowed socialist senator told a crowd of supporters at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, according to WBUR-FM. “What we need is a woman who has the guts to stand up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies, to the fossil fuel industries.”

 

Though he ultimately endorsed Clinton, Sanders often criticized the former secretary of state for her record on Wall Street, frequently calling on her to release the transcripts of her high-priced private speeches delivered to big banks such as Goldman Sachs.

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Sanders strikes again.