On Wednesday night, at a Bernie Sanders rally in New York City, a Sanders surrogate implied that Hillary Clinton is a "corporate Democratic whore."
Then, on Friday, protesters targeting a Clinton fundraiser with Amal and George Clooney chanted: "Hey hey, ho ho, Hillary Clinton has got to go." (That is, of course, a traditional chant, but it also doesn't exist in a vacuum.)
At the same fundraiser, Sanders supporters [CN: video autoplays at link] threw dollar bills at Clinton's motorcade.
A thousand dollars rained down on her car as it passed the protesters. Who were protesting an event which was raising money for down ballot Democratic races.
![screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: ''Corp Dem whore' I wasn't talking about HER. 'Hey hey ho ho' It's an old chant. 'Throwing $ bills' It's abt money in politics. We see you.'](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/apix/tweet72.jpg)
Between tweeting about that and promoting my piece complimenting Clinton's tenacity, I got a lot of pushback on Twitter over the weekend, much of it along the usual lines of how I just don't understand politics.
I had a few things to say about that, and I have Storified my tweetstorm in "I Have Thought About Politics."
I have spent a lot of years thinking an awful lot about patterns of misogyny and about politics. And I am right at the end of my fucking rope with people coming at me like I'm new and/or like I'm stupid.
It's not because I can't take it; Maude knows I navigate far worse every day than some dipshit treating me like I don't know anything. It's because this is not how a progressive movement is built. You don't build a movement by treating the people who have been around a minute like they're useless garbage.
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