Unfortunately, the entire conversation around Sanders resembles most political conversations we have around white personalities in the political sphere.
It's not really about their ideas and policies. It's about how much white people like them. It's about what white people feel about them.
In the States, we don't really vote for good candidates based on their merits. It's literally just a popularity contest.
And yet we keep expecting things to change by doing it over and over and over again.