So for example, Bernie Sanders voted in favor of the Iraq Resolution, which lead to the Iraq war, but then claimed he was against going in to the Iraq War. Personally I was in favor of the Iraq intervention but it shows duplicity. Then you have him refusing to pay higher taxes or pay his workers 15 dollars an hour, despite demanding that the whole rest of the country do it and not live up to his ideals. He's switched back and forth on immigration a bajillion times but, but he also praised the soviet union's and Venezuela's social programs, which he claimed he based a lot of his ideas on.
He's contradicted himself a bunch of times, became a millionaire but claims to detest millionaires, and promotes policies up until it's obvious they will fail, and then pretends he never did. He isn't morally unquestionable. But beyond that, people don't vote for a guy they don't know much about, and that is why name recognition was so important, such as with Trump. He was never even a politician, but name recognition alone was enough to get his name in the media and get the votes. It's probably one of the most important features.
