Opinion: Here’s what really matters about the Warren-Sanders feud
in response saying that in the conversation, “I thought a woman could win; he disagreed” but emphasizing their friendship and common cause.As a conflict between two candidates, this is all but meaningless. My guess is that Sanders said something he thought was innocuous about the higher odds a woman would face, but Warren didn’t like what it implied, so she remembered it and he forgot about it. Whether that’s what happened or not, nobody actually thinks Sanders is some kind of secret sexist.
To be clear, that assumption might be correct, or it might not. The most persuasive argument against it is that we don’t nominate types of candidates, we nominate individual candidates, each with his or her own strengths and weaknesses. In the abstract, a black candidate with limited government experience whose middle name was Hussein would have been profoundly unelectable in 2008, but since that candidate happened to be Barack Obama, the opposite was true.
And of course, much of Trump’s campaign was based on giving his supporters permission to indulge and celebrate their worst impulses, whether it was racism or xenophobia or sexism. There was something both horrifying and narratively appropriate in the idea that after a lifetime of struggling against sexism, to reach the Oval Office Clinton would have to face the most proudly misogynist candidate of our lifetimes, like thein a video game version of the patriarchy.
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