You're projecting. Throwing a baseless accusation of Trumpism at me is not the best way to open an argument about the basis of my accusations about Bernie. If you can only extend the benefit of doubt to a politician you used to support but not to people criticizing him, your self-description as "disillusioned" is inaccurate. Examine your biases.

Looking only at "everything he has actually said" is not enough to judge a character of a politician. Instead, my analysis of Bernie's character is based on things he actually did. I am not "just accusing" him of lying, I show how his actions in support of authoritarian regimes are in conflict with the ideology of liberal democracy.

For a generic US politician, I could believe that their actions in conflict with their stated ideology are motivated by simple corruption via some combination of money, power, and blackmail. Bernie's decades long history of working with Trotskyists offers a simpler explanation: he's just not that liberal. His own authoritarian habits -- from his inability to listen to his unwillingness to trust anyone to his preference for hiring loyalists -- support my theory that his personal ideology is closer to authoritarian socialism than to social democracy.

Don't give me that bullshit about free speech, go read the text of the First Amendment, then point me at specific words in it that prohibit me from calling out toxic behavior. Both Tlaib and Omar are adults, when they act like they need to learn something it's not because they didn't get a chance to learn it, it's because they chose not to. Don't waste your time stanning for people who don't want to learn how to be better humans.