Clinton supporters are outcasts in US colleges

Walk around any college campus in the U.S, and you’re likely to see many Bernie T-shirts in support of Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate. He is emerging as a popular politician among college students as he stresses socialist policies appealing to the youth such as free college tuition and the minimum wage increase.

According to the Guardian on Sunday, Bernie Sanders’ popularity is incomparably higher than Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner. Students’ negative perception about Clinton has not changed and even those who support Clinton are thought to be not cool.

This is even true at Harvard University. Clinton supporters at the university often get nasty questions such as “What do you mean why don’t you want free tuition for everyone?” and “Why don’t you want to tax the rich?” Some people say to them, “What’s wrong with you? You’re evil.” Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who wrote a column supporting Clinton for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper, got malicious comments on Facebook.

Sam Koppelman, a 20-year old studying politics at Harvard, said admitting supporting Clinton is nearly tantamount to supporting Donald Trump. Although Sanders showed better than expected results, many believe that the anti-Clinton sentiment among college students is due to his disappointing defeat in the Democratic primary.