I can see that happening. It’s as sure a thing as Biden supporters excusing or embracing every needless compromise he makes with conservatives and every move to the right he makes out of fear of offending the Know-Nothings and corporations if he somehow becomes President.
The really interesting thing is that the bulk of the obnoxious and/or disingenuous supporters in both cases would come from the same demographic: privileged white cis-het male supporters from middle-class backgrounds who would have the least to lose from either too much intransigence (as BernieBros would demand from Sanders) or too much Third-Way abandonment of liberal values and programmes (as would likely be the case with apologists for the DNC establishment on behalf of Biden).
We saw a preview of these unhelpful attitudes in 2016, and it seems we’ll also be seeing them again as this over-long primary season continues. The introduction of a progressive female candidate this time around will make for an interesting new twist, though.*
[* ETA: this is because in the cases where she breaks with Sanders the segment of BernieBros we’re discussing will let their sexism fly as they did in 2016, but the establishment apologists will be less inclined to defend her than they were with Clinton. Poor Warren.]
