WOW. Before the "Bernie Bro," Clinton supporters created the "Obama boy."

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Except "Bernie Bro" isn't a creation: It's a real thing. I go to a University - I see this sh**t for real. There's a hotbed of it. Any commentator who dares criticize Bernie sees thousands of pages of Bernie supporters raging against that commentator. Sometimes it's knowledgeable, most of the time it's not.

But oh, I'm just a TRUMP TROLL, so ignore any points I make

Sure, "Berniebros" exist if your definition of them is just someone who defends Bernie Sanders online. How does that make them different from supporters of any other candidate ever though?

I have many, many friends (male and female) who support Sanders but do not throw temper tantrums everytime someone disagrees with them or he loses by 0.2%. I have had a good number of vigorous and substantive debates about our support for differing candidates and at the end we simply agreed to disagree and not let things come in between us.

There were high emotions in 2012 and 2014, but that was in the run-up to the election, usually breaking the surface in September and blowing up in October (especially after the 2012 debates) and on election night, but not like this during the primaries. I vaguely remember the 2008 election but there was little arguing because we were all 13 and just parroted out parents' views (like good 13 year olds).

2016 has been a whole new level. The vast majority of both Hillary and Bernie supporters (and the small number of GOPers as well) are deeply invested in this, but the Bernie Bros are a real thing and they really are aggressive and intimidating.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Except "Bernie Bro" isn't a creation: It's a real thing. I go to a University - I see this sh**t for real. There's a hotbed of it. Any commentator who dares criticize Bernie sees thousands of pages of Bernie supporters raging against that commentator. Sometimes it's knowledgeable, most of the time it's not.

But oh, I'm just a TRUMP TROLL, so ignore any points I make

Sure, "Berniebros" exist if your definition of them is just someone who defends Bernie Sanders online. How does that make them different from supporters of any other candidate ever though?

I have many, many friends (male and female) who support Sanders but do not throw temper tantrums everytime someone disagrees with them or he loses by 0.2%. I have had a good number of vigorous and substantive debates about our support for differing candidates and at the end we simply agreed to disagree and not let things come in between us.

There were high emotions in 2012 and 2014, but that was in the run-up to the election, usually breaking the surface in September and blowing up in October (especially after the 2012 debates) and on election night, but not like this during the primaries. I vaguely remember the 2008 election but there was little arguing because we were all 13 and just parroted out parents' views (like good 13 year olds).

2016 has been a whole new level. The vast majority of both Hillary and Bernie supporters (and the small number of GOPers as well) are deeply invested in this, but the Bernie Bros are a real thing and they really are aggressive and intimidating.

So you admit this is the first election you've had the critical faculty to follow but then you insist it's "a whole new level". Which is it? Sorry, bub. Every election is like this. 2008 was like this. 2004 was like this. Every election ever.

Read my post again. I specifically mentioned an election between 2008 and 2016, when I did not experience the knee-jerk reactions outside of this forum as early as the primaries. I followed 2012 and 2014 very closely and it never spilled over into my personal life the way this one has.