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Faurexus wrote:

If it did seem like a cult of personality around Bernie during the primaries, it was probably because the only other major candidate considered left (Warren) routinely exposed herself as an opportunistic liar. When a person is the only one pushing a point of view that has a large enough base of support, and their opponents are hellbent on stopping them, it’s understandable for the candidate’s supporters to deify them.

Maybe, but I don't think Bernie was "deified" by his supporters. If anything many of them were critical of him for not going hard enough against his opponents in the primary, and then lining up behind Biden.

If anything the vast majority of Bernie supporters are policy oriented, not personality oriented. They liked Bernie because he stood for the kind of social democratic policies they believe in.