Wow. On Rachel Maddow tonight, if you were watching you saw it, Rachel gave Bernie a chance to discourage his supporters from protesting outside Clinton events and he declined. Instead, he said, “That is absolutely appropriate, why not?” Not even the Republicans did this until the end of their divisive campaign when Trump supporters started showing up at Cruz events and vice versa. With no chance of winning the nomination this is what he wants? Shouting at each other in the streets?

From the interview regarding Sanders supporters protesting at Clinton events:

SANDERS: Let me just say a word on that. We have never asked and I’m not comfortable with people disrupting other people’s meetings. I mean I think the right to protest is absolutely right, going outside, protest, bring out thousands of people. Not my style to see people disrupting other people’s meetings. I’ve had meetings disrupted, I don’t like it.

MADDOW: If they’re not disrupting inside, do you want your supporters protesting outside Hillary Clinton events?

SANDERS: I don’t mind. If that’s, we have nothing to do with that, that’s what people, we have millions of supporters and people all over the country doing their thing, if people want to protest outside, absolutely that’s their right to do that.

MADDOW: But you’re not encouraging it or discouraging it?

SANDERS: We’re not encouraging people to disrupt meetings, that we certainly are not doing. That I’m not a great fan of.

MADDOW: Let me just be clear though. In terms of people turning up and protesting outside and not disrupting?

SANDERS: Absolutely, if they want to do that, that is absolutely appropriate, why not? That is what freedom of speech is about, what freedom of dissent is about. People standing outside by the hundreds, by the thousands, saying look we disagree, I think that’s absolutely appropriate.