A Bruce Springsteen Fan Club Broke Up After He Endorsed Abdul El-Sayed

In a preview of Thanksgiving dinners around the country, the “Spring-Nuts,” a Facebook Fan Club for Bruce Springsteen with 18,000 members, broke up because The Boss’s endorsement of now-Senator Elect Abdul El-Sayed opened a rift in the group with the moderators on one side and the membership on the other. “As the world grew increasingly divisive, hostile, those tensions inevitably spilled into our little corner of the E Street world,” moderator Howie Chaz and wife Julie said in a statement. “What should have been respectful differences of opinion too often deteriorated into personal attacks, bullying, insults, and some genuinely vile and hateful rhetoric.” According to the Asbury Park Press (paywalled link), Chaz named the breaking point as Springsteen’s endorsement of El-Sayed in Michigan. Chaz does not like El-Sayed or his association with streamer Hasan Piker. “Mr. Sayed campaigned with Hasan Piker who openly made horrific statements that America deserved 9/11,” Chaz complained. “After a Michigan synagogue was attacked back in March, obviously an act of terrorism, Sayed rationalized it by saying ‘Hurt people hurt people’ standing right next to the antisemitic streamer Hasan Pike...