WHEN DEMOCRATS GET TREATED AS BADLY AS REPUBLICANS: ‘I’ve been silent’: Harvard’s Clinton backers face life on a pro-Bernie campus.
Walk around any college campus and Bernie Sanders’ popularity is immediately apparent. Depending on the climate, you’re likely to see Bernie T-shirts or Bernie sweaters or Bernie hats or Bernie scarves.
You’re less likely to encounter Hillary Clinton memorabilia. In a setting where students are meant to be rebelling against the status quo, to be wearing berets and hanging Che Guevara posters on their walls, supporting Clinton just isn’t cool.
It turns out this is even true at Harvard University – hardly known for revolutionary politics.
In April, Sam Koppelman, a 20-year-old government student at Harvard, wrote a letter to the New York Times lamenting that his support for Clinton meant that on campus he “might as well be Pat Buchanan”.
“At Harvard, admitting that #ImWithHer is nearly tantamount to boasting ‘Make America Great Again’,” Koppelman wrote.
If you’re not in, you’re out. Lefty politics are all about tribalism. But congrats to the 20-year-old who knows who Pat Buchanan is.