Last year, as a worldwide pandemic spread, most of us worried about our loved ones becoming sick, or losing our jobs, as well as the prospect of massive economic immiseration and civilizational collapse. We needed socialism more urgently than ever.

But despite mass unemployment and the shuttering of entire cities — not to mention hundreds of COVID-19 deaths every day — the specter of “Bernie Bros” continued to haunt the minds of mainstream feminists.

As you know, unless you’ve been living without media access for the last six years, “Bernie Bros” refers to rude men on the internet supporting Senator Bernie Sanders’s bid for the presidency.