Maybe It's Mostly Just Misogyny

In her book of observations about the political climate of the US in the 1960s, Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Essays, Joan Didion talks of meeting one young leftist:

"He was born twenty-six years ago in Brooklyn, moved as a child to Los Angeles, dorpped out of UCLA his sophomore year to organize for the Retail Clerks, and now, as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist), a splinter group of Stalinist-Maoists who divide their energies between Watts and Harlem, he is rigidly committed to an immutable complex of doctrine, including the notions that the traditional American Communist Party is a 'revisionist bourgeois clique,' that the Progressive Labor Party, the Trotskyites, and 'the revisionist clique headed by Gus Hall' prove themselves opportunistic bourgeois lackeys by making their peace appeal not to the 'workers' but to the liberal imperialists; and that H. Rap Brown is the tool, if not the conscious agent, of the ruling imperial class."

The above particular essay came to mind yesterday, when I saw Jacobin predictably making its case against Elizabeth Warren, in favor of Bernie Sanders.

Maybe the simpler explanation is that he's a man and she's a woman. I hope this helps.

— Fannie Wolfe 🌈 (@fanniesroom) April 22, 2019

I'm sure the "fact" that Warren is a "Brandeisian" and Sanders is a "Debsian" matters to some people, but I'm more sure that the fact that Bernie is a white guy matters more, and to more people.
And, while members of Bernie's very online leftist fan club will think this makes me snobby to say,  the conversation in the Twitter thread is a good reminder that the way many of the folks at Jacobin talk about politicians is probably not the way most Americans talk about politicians or decide who to vote for.

Of course, acknowledging that I'm correct would require acknowledging that a large part of Bernie's appeal is not that he's tapping into the latent socialist desires of the masses, but that he taps into white male grievance at establishment institutions, identity politics, political correctness, and women's expanding political power as represented by Hillary Clinton, who he seems to have never stopped running against since 2015.

It's weird that Bernie never stopped running against Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/phVDCu23za

— Fannie Wolfe 🌈 (@fanniesroom) April 22, 2019