Most of us who support other candidates aren't so thin skinned about it though. If someone says something even super super minor about him in the media (or even something completely benign - like mentioning him in the wrong order in election results), his supporters get really, really upset about it. At least it's mostly limited to his supporters and not the campaign itself - his campaign (ignoring a few of his surrogates) is actually pretty chill.
None of the other candidates are up against the collective biases of both liberal and far right media. Not a single one. I don't disagree that harder-core Bernie sups can often be provoked into disproportionate counter-aggression, but I'd argue that this sensitivity is partially in response to their collective movement being vilified, misrepresented, downplayed, caricatured and slanderously attacked from every
single corner of the political sphere. Almost every politician or political org to the right of Sanders has maligned him in some way, and his supporters see this. Imagine what it's like putting all that energy into just advocating for improving everyone's life and yet have to defend your political stance from maniacs like C. Matthews ranting to millions that you actually want to execute innocent people in a park.
No, I don't think it's fair to use the term "thin skinned" at all, Damaniel. They're hyper vigilant, sure, but how can you blame them when even MSNBC has invoked Nazism and compared them to genocidal murderers.
Like, you know,
what the fuck?