With the self-declared socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders refusing to quit and actually winning the majority of primary elections recently, the Democrat side of the presidential campaign has actually become somewhat interesting.
Former secretary of state and presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton and Sanders have been trading blows recently, with each calling the other “unqualified” for the highest office for a variety of reasons. The recent exchange between the two candidates prompted a Hillary supporter named Kim Fredricks to start a pro-Hillary hashtag on Twitter called #HillarySoQualified.
Fredricks tweeted, “#HillarySoQualified she got 8M children insured while you renamed two post office boxes.#ImWithHer.”
However, what was meant to be a hashtag in support of Hillary quickly devolved into the exact opposite, with many users highjacking the hashtag and attaching it to snarky, sarcastic, even downright mean tweets in opposition to the front-running Democrat.
Bear in mind that while Hillary’s supporters and many liberals are ticked at the change in events, many of the anti-Hillary posts under the hashtag are coming from fellow leftists who happen to be Bernie supporters.
#ClintonPlaybook – Launch the attacks, then paint yourself as a victim when our side responds. #HillarySoQualified pic.twitter.com/5Qc1zjzvoE
— MediaMakers4Bernie (@MM4Bernie) April 8, 2016