I don ' t know , some Sanders supporters did get really rabid . I live in a leftwing area and have mostly leftleaning friends , so most of the crazy Trumpet stuff I hear second hand . But some of the Bernie people around me went off the deep end for a while some still are . Like , conspiracy theories about his opponent , claims it wasn ' t fair when he was losing , the idea that he could do no wrong . I really think it could play into the same type of cultofpersonality or identity stuff as Trump supporters . I get what you ' re saying about stereotyping , even if I don ' t think it fully applies here . I will readily admit that not all people who voted for Trump are culty . Probably a small minority . And I will admit that there could be selection bias in that people are more likely to talk about their racist uncle frothing at the mouth than the person who didn ' t speak out about their views , or didn ' t have any views and just picked with almost no information and went about their day . That being said , I would like to know the proportion of culty people to normal people in both Trump ' s and Sanders ' camps , and if there is a difference in ratio , why ?