Bernie Sanders is nothing if not an idealist. He believes if elected, he can achieve the Herculean feat of transitioning America to single-payer healthcare. He’s backed the Green New Deal; promises free college; canceled student loan debt; the end of the housing crisis. But a woman becoming president? Apparently, a bridge too far.
“Hillary Clinton lost because of sexism,” CNN commentator Mel Robbins wrote that she believed “it was overt sexism that in the end kept the presidency from the first female major-party presidential candidate.” As we enter the second act of our National Nightmare, it remains a relevant concern, one that seems not only natural, but necessary, to raise in a closed-door discussion between the two.
According to the story, Sanders at the time “expressed frustration at what he saw as a growing focus among Democrats on identity politics, according to one of the people familiar with the conversation. Warren told Sanders she disagreed with his assessment that a woman could not win, three of the four sources said.”“It is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where Elizabeth Warren told me she was going to run for president, I would tell her that a woman couldn’t win,” Sanders said.
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