You may have heard the term “BernieBro being thrown around on Facebook and Twitter lately,normally during discussions about the candidacy of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Robsinon Meyer of The Atlantic invented the term late final year, in an article describing what he saw as a collection of conversational and argumentative tics frequently exhibited by Sanders’ supporters (“The Berniebro talks a lot about DC insiders”; “The Berniebro knows the media is complicit in keeping Clinton the Democratic front-runner”) but he didn’t settle on a concrete definition. So what is a BernieBro? Language is a malleable thing, and so for now we’ll defer to the definitions laid down by other outlets. Here’s what we know about the BernieBro so far:Read more...
Source: gawker.com