People just read too much in to a parasocial relationship. She's always been a Bernie succdem. When people realized that their internet waifu wasn't a hard core maoist they lost their shit.

There was also some extremely stupid thing where Natalie said, paraphrased, that she envied how zoomers and young millenials can be more flexible in their gender presentation because she couldn't do that, and people decided that meant she was condemning non binary people or something. It was very dumb, but also very typical of internet discourse that focuses on being as disingenuously loud and outraged as you can manage.