Bernie Sanders

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

by Ernest Scheyder  · 30 Jan 2024  · 355pp  · 133,726 words

and to see what additional measures they can take to work with the tribes, including forgoing development in these sacred areas.”95 Lawmakers, including Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Raul Grijalva of Arizona, introduced legislation to prevent the land swap, but those bills gained little traction.96 Obama’s administration

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19, 2014, www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/statement-by-interior-secretary-sally-jewell-on-the-national-defense-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2015. 96. Senator Bernie Sanders, “Sanders, Baldwin Introduce Bill to Stop Land Giveaway, Protect Native American Place of Worship,” press release, November 5, 2015, www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx  · 18 Nov 2025  · 642pp  · 142,332 words

the protests. In their aftermath, sympathetic commentators praised OWS for revitalizing the American left, elevating income inequality into a major issue, and reinvigorating protest culture. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez later harnessed this momentum. Critics like Andrew Ross Sorkin argued, however, that OWS would be “an asterisk in the history books

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

by Charlotte Alter  · 18 Feb 2020  · 504pp  · 129,087 words

McCain (b. 1936), a war hero and maverick who was eighty when he saved millions of American health care plans with a single vote, or Bernie Sanders (b. 1941), a seventy-eight-year-old socialist whose popularity with young voters has buoyed two presidential campaigns. But as Alexis de Tocqueville observed in

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. It’s also worth noting that young voters don’t necessarily favor young candidates: just look at the youth movement sustaining seventy-eight-year-old Bernie Sanders’s political ambitions. The first wave of the millennial vanguard came after the 2008 election, when a handful of young people—many of them young

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of other young people would become enamored with his subject, Pete chose to write about a lawmaker who was at that point fairly obscure: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The essay started off as predictable high school drivel (“There are a daunting number of important issues which are to be confronted if

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was not the same as centrism, and collaboration was not the same as capitulation. He ended with a hint at his own ambitions: “I commend Bernie Sanders for giving me an answer to those who say American young people see politics as a cesspool of corruption, beyond redemption,” he wrote. “I have

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way. Ad dollars once spent on interrupting local news programs would soon be spent targeting specific likely voters on Facebook. The campaigns of Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump would all thrive on this new model of viral fame and digital campaigning. But because millennials grew up navigating this jungle of

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Americans were being screwed by a greedy elite: “We are the 99%” would become the rallying cry of the many against the few. Without Occupy, Bernie Sanders would have stayed a fringe senator from Vermont, Elizabeth Warren probably would not be running for president, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likely wouldn’t be

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between her rent and her student debt and her health insurance premiums, the money she made in tips wasn’t making ends meet. So when Bernie Sanders started making speeches in 2015 about a living wage, Medicare for All, and free college, Alexandria was an instant convert. She volunteered at Bernie’s

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-women Wellesley College, the college kids were feeling the Bern. He was the most popular politician in America among the under-thirty set. By March, Bernie Sanders had won more young voters than Trump and Clinton combined. In April, shortly before the New York primary, Alexandria and Maria waited in lines snaking

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around the block to get into a Bernie Sanders rally in Washington Square Park. People were packed into the park, overflowing onto the streets, and a whiff of marijuana hung in the air. The

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exit polling, no matter who you voted for, everyone in the exit polls was dissatisfied with their options,” she said. “But I do think that Bernie Sanders did speak to a demographic of people that may have wanted to be a little more constructive in their political movements and actions—but when

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the election, young people all over the country were beginning to mobilize in new ways around climate change. In 2016, as it became clear that Bernie Sanders would lose the Democratic primary, a handful of young organizers who had protested the Keystone XL pipeline and agitated for fossil fuel divestment met to

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Democratic House for a decade.” Other millennial organizers were driving the party to the left by mimicking the Republicans’ tendency to slay their moderates. Former Bernie Sanders staffers Saikat Chakrabarti and Corbin Trent started Brand New Congress, aimed at replacing every member of Congress with working-class progressives: this was the group

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-hour weeks in dangerous factories. “If the people who were making policies were smart,” said Michael Carter, a shaggy-haired DSA member who worked for Bernie Sanders and later served as deputy campaign manager for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “they might realize that taking us to levels of inequality not seen since the

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college when the government no longer subsidized higher education the way it once did? Those were exactly the questions Bernie Sanders wanted to answer. * * * Millennials had been socialist-curious for a while, but Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign was an ideological turning point for many left-leaning young people. Sanders offered universal solutions

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world. Meanwhile, all the baby boomers are like, ‘We’re not gonna change anything and we want all the money still, and just chill out.’” Bernie Sanders lost the primary, but his campaign served as a crash course in democratic socialism for an entire generation of young voters. Just as Hillary’s

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thirty-three-year old physician with a gift for oration and a sharp sense of style, was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America and Bernie Sanders. His grassroots campaign was based on the assumption that Sanders’s surprise victory in the Michigan primary in 2016 hinted at a groundswell of socialist

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’s anyone out there that’s thinking of running for office either this year or next year.” She was running on an updated version of Bernie Sanders’s progressive platform: Medicare for All, a fifteen-dollar minimum wage, a Green New Deal. But unlike Sanders, she was an open book: her personal

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unofficial system: everybody sat under a Post-it that labeled their job, and as people switched jobs they would move the Post-its around. Former Bernie Sanders staffer and democratic socialist Michael Carter came on in early 2018 as a fundraiser—by the summer, he was deputy campaign manager. The strategy was

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Medicare for All, a fifteen-dollar minimum wage, and a Green New Deal—after all, he said over and over again, Michiganders had voted for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primary. His campaign strategy was rooted in positioning himself as the Bernie of the race while subtly aligning his

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were obvious. Abdul had support from DSA activists, the Sunrise Movement, Alexandria (who had become a Democratic superstar since her surprise primary win), and even Bernie Sanders himself. Whitmer had support from Emily’s List and the Michigan Democratic establishment, and had deep ties to corporations such as Blue Cross Blue Shield

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American socialist movement after generations in retreat,” which, given how many of their candidates lost, seemed a bit overblown. When The New York Times asked Bernie Sanders about the progressives’ losses in Iowa and Pennsylvania, he said, “It’s not a baseball game.” The midterms illustrated how far the progressive movement had

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sit-downs: he came off as thoughtful and interesting, a fresh face in a primary already dominated by familiar names such as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. His campaign began to gain traction in March of 2019, when he called Vice President Mike Pence a “cheerleader of the porn star presidency” during

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, the incident highlighted Pete’s failure to diversify the local police department and further alienated him from voters of color. But Pete stayed calm. While Bernie Sanders was running on “political revolution” and Elizabeth Warren branded herself as a “fighter,” Pete’s campaign had a sense of peace and healing to it

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I have the chance to usher in a new American spring.” * * * If Pete was attempting to channel the Obama legacy, AOC was the heiress to Bernie Sanders. She represented the anti-establishment rage that had fueled the millennial left since the financial crisis: the young progressives who slept at Zuccotti Park in

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became clear that Pete was a threat to the progressive left, AOC began to throw him some shade on Twitter. And in October, she endorsed Bernie Sanders, giving his campaign a much-needed boost after he had a heart attack on the campaign trail. Just as Pete had rooted his campaign in

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waving blue and white signs on a cloudless October day in Queens. “It wasn’t until I heard of a man by the name of Bernie Sanders that I began to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being that deserves health care, housing, education, and a living

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and Applied Social Psychology 35, no. 2 (March 2013), tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2013.764304. not the same as capitulation: Peter Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, John F. Kennedy Presiential Liberary and Museum, 2000, jfklibrary.org/learn/education/profile-in-courage-essay-contest/past-winning-essays/2000-winning-essay-by-peter

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, “Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Unlikely Rise,” TIME, March 21, 2019, time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/. among young voters in Iowa: Chris Cillizza, “Bernie Sanders Crushed Hillary Clinton by 70 Points Among Young Voters in Iowa,” The Washington Post, February 2, 2016, washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02

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/02/bernie-sanders-crushed-hillary-clinton-by-70-points-among-young-people-in-iowa-but/. 78 percent of first-time voters: Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, “Young Voters

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Abandon Hillary Clinton for Bernie Sanders,” CNN, February 10, 2016, cnn.com/2016/02/10/politics/hillary-clinton-new-hampshire-primary/index.html. underwater by more than twenty points: Frank Newport

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-americans.aspx. were feeling the Bern: Charlotte Alter, “Bernie Winning Feminists Even at Hillary Clinton’s Alma Mater,” TIME, February 16, 2016, time.com/4220427/bernie-sanders-wellesley-hillary-clinton-femisim/. among the under-thirty set: Harvard IOP Spring 2016 Poll, iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/past/harvard-iop-spring-2016-poll

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Socialists of America, November 7, 2018, dsausa.org/statements/npc-statement-on-2018-elections/. “It’s not a baseball game.”: Sydney Ember and Alexandra Burns, “Bernie Sanders Is Winning Converts. But Primary Victories Remain Elusive,” The New York Times, June 24, 2018, nytimes.com/2018/06/24/us/politics

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/bernie-sanders-midterm-elections.html. 350 percent since 2016: Charlotte Alter, “The Avengers,” TIME, January 18, 2018, time.com/magazine/us/5107476/january-29th-2018-vol-191-

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The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality

by Bhaskar Sunkara  · 1 Feb 2019  · 324pp  · 86,056 words

there are new opportunities for this better sort of socialism to take root. As we’ll see, Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn and the United States’ Bernie Sanders have pursued a “class struggle” social democracy, unleashing popular energy that has revitalized the Left as a whole. I offer a tentative strategy for taking

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’t enough. As we will see, the emergence of the movement around British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and to a lesser extent that of Bernie Sanders in the United States, represents a surprising challenge to the Third Way. What makes Corbyn, in particular, so remarkable is that he doesn’t just

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the divide between the haves and the have nots, we can create a more durable socialist politics in America. The popularity of the democratic socialist Bernie Sanders and the inspiring activism of the last several years make even this pessimist think the answer is yes. PART II EIGHT RETURN OF THE MACK

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that any serious struggle against oppression has to demand the massive redistribution of power and wealth from the elite to the poor and working classes. BERNIE SANDERS’S 2016 presidential campaign started with some haphazard remarks delivered to an empty National Mall. Bernie stood calmly behind a podium, said a few words

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them had never heard much about socialism but were ready for a politics oriented around their needs. Almost all of the US left embraced the Bernie Sanders movement, but there were questions over just what he meant when he called himself a democratic socialist. The senator would invoke Eugene V. Debs and

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even more radical proposals. The success of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-professed democratic socialist, is just one example. If it’s possible that Bernie Sanders can win a national election, that means that the capital of capitalism may be months away from having a socialist in the White House. But

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. A protégé of the late Tony Benn, Corbyn is a genuine radical and by far the most left-wing leader in Labour’s history. Like Bernie Sanders in the United States, he is an unreconstructed survivor of a different era of socialist politics. Unlike Sanders, he had the benefit of a close

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seems plausible for the first time in a long while because of a Labour Party that looks far beyond the horizon of traditional Labourism. Like Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, Corbyn’s breakthrough has shown that socialists can garner popular support by building a credible opposition rooted in an unapologetically left vision

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advance of the past hundred fifty years: mass parties, an activist base, and a mobilized working class. We’re not starting from scratch, though. The Bernie Sanders campaign encouraged millions to believe that things can be different. New mass actions, such as 2018’s teacher strikes, have also revealed in our own

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63 percent thought immigration was a good thing.3 Even after being subjected to three years of attacks from both the Right and corporate Democrats, Bernie Sanders is among the most popular politicians in the United States. His central demands—a universal jobs program and single-payer health insurance—both enjoy substantial

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sparked by both intolerable conditions and the efforts of small groups of organizers.8 Consider the dynamics in the teacher strike in 2018 West Virginia: Bernie Sanders campaigned extensively in the state, and his supporters built up enough of an infrastructure to win every county in the 2016 Democratic primary. Some young

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it oligarchically.”15 Abolishing the Electoral College and pushing toward more proportional voting systems that encourage participation must be immediate demands. Other reforms such as Bernie Sanders’s Workplace Democracy Act could help encourage working-class militancy by making it easier to form unions, protect workers from employer retaliation, roll back “right

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Revolution: A Future to Believe In (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016), 23. 15. Michael Kruse, “Bernie Sanders Has a Secret,” Politico, July 9, 2015, politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927. 16. Sanders, Our Revolution, 50. 17. Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017), 227. 18. Symone

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D. Sanders, “It’s Time to End the Myth That Black Voters Don’t Like Bernie Sanders,” Washington Post, September 12, 2017, washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/12/its-time-to-end-the-myth-that-black-voters-dont-like

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-and-bernie-sanders-aren-t-the-same. 3. “Americans’ Views of Immigration Marked by Widening Partisan, Generational Divides,” Pew Research, April 15, 2016. 4. “A Slim Majority of

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

by Gary Gerstle  · 14 Oct 2022  · 655pp  · 156,367 words

seemed inconceivable now dominated politics and popular consciousness: the election of Donald Trump and the launch of a presidency like no other; the rise of Bernie Sanders and the resurrection of a socialist left; the sudden and deep questioning of open borders and free trade; the surge of populism and ethnonationalism and

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that issued from the Great Recession of 2008–2009 (the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders) and that pushed the neoliberal order to its breaking point. The neoliberal order was already fragmenting when the 2020 pandemic delivered the coup de grace

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(or the labor movement of the 1930s) had been. But the three, in combination, profoundly convulsed American politics, fueling the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, leading in 2016 to one of the more remarkable election campaigns in American history. This was the moment when America’s neoliberal order began to

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New York mayor, replacing the man, Michael Bloomberg, who had ordered the New York City police to evict the occupiers from Zuccotti Park. And then Bernie Sanders, the US Senate’s lone but proud socialist, mounted a surprisingly successful challenge to Hillary Clinton, Obama’s heir apparent and neoliberal standard-bearer, in

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Revival Trump wanted the breakup of the neoliberal order to benefit the authoritarian right. But the breakup was also benefiting a social democratic left that Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and others had been infusing with new life. Trump’s constant talk of putting tariffs on imports, stopping the free movement of people

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sign of a political order’s triumph, the loss of that ability signaled a political order’s demise. Trump’s work, along with that of Bernie Sanders, in undermining neoliberal hegemony created additional opportunities for once peripheral political ideas and initiatives to flourish. Across the 2010s, the left built an institutional infrastructure

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won congressional seats: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts), and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan). Their success, in turn, vaulted two leftists, Bernie Sanders (again), and Elizabeth Warren, into frontrunner status for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. Warren built a national reputation in the aftermath of the financial

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care to every American (“Medicare for All”), to cancel trillions of dollars in student debt, and to establish a federal minimum wage of $15/hour. Bernie Sanders, “It’s Time to Complete the Revolution We Started,” The Guardian, February 25, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/25/its-time-to

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Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

by Becky Bond and Zack Exley  · 9 Nov 2016  · 227pp  · 71,675 words

. An alternate title would appropriately be: How to Make the Impossible, Possible. Prepare to be inspired.” —Assemblywoman Lucy Flores “For populists who want to continue Bernie Sanders’s political revolution and win radical change, this is a book for you. In their Rules for Revolutionaries, Becky Bond and Zack Exley lay down

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possible by combining emerging consumer technology and radical trust with some tried and true ‘old organizing’ tactics.” —Jim Hightower, author of Swim Against the Current “Bernie Sanders’s presidential run was a spectacular wake-up call, revealing the huge number of Americans willing to fight for radical change. That includes a great

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organizing for good. Insurgents get ready, this is the book for you.” —Nina Turner, assistant professor of African American history, Cuyahoga Community College; national surrogate, Bernie Sanders campaign; former Ohio state senator “This must-read book lays down twenty-two ‘rules’ designed to put power in the hands of people who want

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we win.” That was the subject line of the first email I wrote back in the fall of 2015 to the rapidly growing list of Bernie Sanders supporters. It was 6:00 a.m., and Zack and I were occupying the lobby of a Comfort Inn in Little Rock, Arkansas. While brilliant

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Hampshire, Zack and I found ourselves on a team of go-for-broke irregulars charged with organizing what was then a vast outpost of the Bernie Sanders campaign for president. It was our task to help organize supporters in all the states that would not be staffed until much later in the

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for and revolutionize the work of social movements in the United States and around the world. Before I left my job to work on the Bernie Sanders campaign, I was privileged to work for fifteen years at what was first known as Working Assets and then became CREDO. There I helped create

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go toe to toe with the billionaires and win? That’s the question that Zack and I both left our day jobs and joined the Bernie Sanders campaign to answer. Our experiment in grassroots participation was situated on the fringes of the Bernie campaign. We were part of a small department dedicated

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believe that it’s time to get back to big organizing in a big way. It’s already happening, as evidenced not only by the Bernie Sanders campaign but also by other campaigns and movements before it, such as Obama in 2008, Occupy Wall Street, the effort to unseat George W. Bush

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goal is decided upon by a central movement leadership and sometimes it is presented by the circumstances of history. The team we assembled on the Bernie Sanders campaign, which came to be called the “distributed organizing team,” believed that we had to do whatever was in our power to support and grow

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them all at once. In fact, all of those things are the status quo in almost every high- and middle-income country in the world. Bernie Sanders called for them, and he almost won the presidential primary. Our problems are big, so our solutions must be big as well. To achieve them

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years.” Bernie volunteers said that everywhere we went. People ask us: What can we learn from the big organizing that powered the volunteer movement behind Bernie Sanders? Is it only possible in a presidential campaign? No. Think about the movement to defend black lives. Leaders like Alicia Garza and Erica Garner are

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budget—because we were going to have to build a nearly all volunteer-led movement if we were going to have a chance of electing Bernie Sanders president. But on my very first day in DC, I fell into depression as I learned from my friends Tim Tagaris, Michael Whitney, and Scott

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Matter protesters interrupted a candidate town hall at the annual Netroots Nation political conference. Two of the three Democratic candidates for president were on stage—Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley. Hillary Clinton, perhaps wanting to avoid likely protests, elected not to attend. O’Malley’s offensive reply came first: “Black lives

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founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, suggested a way forward. Writing in The Nation on what’s next for the movement that almost elected Bernie Sanders to the White House, she called for our political revolution to “authentically engage and be led by people of color and immigrants” and to hold

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work to be done. We also need to heed the important insights shared by Ian Haney-López and Heather McGhee who, writing specifically about the Bernie Sanders presidential candidacy for The Nation, explained that racism is not only crushing black people, but that it is also “a political weapon wielded by elites

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them. By the time the Iowa caucus rolled around, it was clear to the whole nation that there was a massive and passionate movement answering Bernie Sanders’s call to build a political revolution. But for people who were early supporters of the campaign or who follow organizing with interest (and that

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. Eventually, in the spring of 2015, it was finally Ceci’s turn to get laid off. Coincidentally this was exactly at the same time that Bernie Sanders launched his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. People like Ceci who saw the financial meltdown from the inside (and also from the downside) often

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the 90s is screwed” and their standard of living was, for the first time in generations, going to go down not up. But this guy Bernie Sanders was speaking to the issues she cared about—the country needed to stop bailing out the big banks and start looking out for regular people

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radical. They were telling the truth. There was no subject line from Bernie reading all lowercase “hey.” No one was going to win dinner with Bernie Sanders, much less George Clooney. It wasn’t even that they tested those gimmicks and found they didn’t payoff. It was always about delivering Bernie

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’s campaign for governor as a field organizer and would go on to be the influential cofounder of Millennials for Bernie Sanders and a national organizer for The People for Bernie. Millennials for Bernie Sanders—which was later rebranded as Millennials for Revolution—became a powerful platform that catapulted Moumita to national prominence as

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. Meanwhile, there’s a four-way tie for the least-trusted professions: lobbyists, members of Congress, telemarketers, and car salespeople. When National Nurses United endorsed Bernie Sanders for president (they were the first national union to do so), NNU president RoseAnn DeMoro said “Bernie’s issues align with nurses from top to

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medical bills, the stress and mental disorders from joblessness, higher asthma rates, cancer, heart ailments, and birth defects from environmental pollution and the climate crisis. Bernie Sanders’s prescriptions best represent the humanity and the values nurses embrace.” Social media and the mainstream media elite fueled the misconception that the driving force

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’s more, it’s going to take all of us, each motivated by the issues that directly affect us, working together to build the revolution. Bernie Sanders wasn’t the movement. He was in the movement. This movement is something we are building together. This is truly our revolution. All of our

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they buy into the concept in practice, they tend to suffer from the tyranny of DC’s absurdly low expectations for what is possible. The Bernie Sanders Latino outreach team was home to some fiercely talented organizers. One of them, Cesar Vargas, brought this rule home to me when I was at

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Colorado Boulder. I met her at a giant barnstorm rally in Denver. She gave me a button with the group’s logo—an illustration of Bernie Sanders riding a unicorn with rainbow lasers shooting out of his fingertips. Incredibly, Hannah had come to the Denver barnstorm because she wanted to be extra

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’t make it into the final edition. So we’ll make an attempt to sneak your names in here! First and foremost we thank Senator Bernie Sanders. It was an honor to be part of his campaign. Throughout the primary, the campaign’s most important asset was Bernie’s message, which would

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Bernie, an independent social media effort led by Winnie Wong and Charles Lenchner, deserves its own book, which we hope they are writing. Millennials for Bernie Sanders, now Millennials for Revolution, gives us such hope, and we thank Moumita Ahmed particularly for her leadership. The nurses got their own rule, but we

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of months. Zack is eternally grateful for the sacrifice, trust, and love that made his time with the Bernie campaign possible. Timeline APRIL 16, 2015: Bernie Sanders walks out of the Senate and announces he is running for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. The People for Bernie launches with an open

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Lives Matter protest disrupts the Democratic candidate forum at the Netroots Nation conference. JULY 29: 100,000 supporters attend 2,700 house parties and watch Bernie Sanders livestream. Over 45,000 people sign up to volunteer for the campaign. AUGUST 4: Zack moves to Burlington, Vermont, and, over a series of phone

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2: Becky gets a job on the campaign as a senior advisor. OCTOBER 13: The first Democratic primary debate is held, with over 4,000 Bernie Sanders debate watch parties launched by the distributed organizing team. OCTOBER 20: Zack and Corbin pilot an early version of barnstorm meetings in Tennessee. OCTOBER 28

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: The national student town hall livestream is held with Bernie Sanders and members of College Students for Bernie Sanders. NOVEMBER: Zack and Becky barnstorm across Colorado and meet volunteers who are already canvassing for the March 1, 2016, caucus without access

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Authors Photo by Bloomberg / Getty Images Becky Bond served as a senior advisor on the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and was an architect of the campaign’s national, volunteer-driven grassroots campaign. Prior to joining the Bernie Sanders campaign, Becky served as political director at CREDO where she was an innovator working at the

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Republican Congressmen. She lives in San Francisco, California, with writer, designer, and book artist Emily McVarish. Zack Exley served as a senior advisor on the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and was an architect of the campaign’s national, volunteer-driven grassroots campaign. Zack was a union organizer before becoming MoveOn.org’s

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politics. THE ALL NEW DON’T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate GEORGE LAKOFF 9781603585941 Paperback • $15.00 THE ESSENTIAL BERNIE SANDERS AND HIS VISION FOR AMERICA JONATHAN TASINI 9781603586672 Paperback • $14.00 BORN ON THIRD BASE A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

by Fredrik Deboer  · 4 Sep 2023  · 211pp  · 78,547 words

chip away at whatever legitimacy he held as a popular-vote loser who had been elected under a cloud of controversy in 2016. Meanwhile, the Bernie Sanders campaign of 2016 had energized a new generation of socialist activists, such as those in the Democratic Socialists of America, and early in 2020 it

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the chronic pessimism that pervades the contemporary left), the policy platform of the Democratic Party in 2020 was far more progressive than that of 2008. Bernie Sanders lost in both 2016 and 2020 but expanded what millions of Americans thought of as politically possible. And our greatest strength lies in our current

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public anger about sexual misconduct in the workplace, systemic racism, and socioeconomic inequality. The #MeToo movement had galvanized public anger toward sexual misconduct, and the Bernie Sanders movement, with its army of newly minted socialists, continued to call for change through the Trump years. Our whole civic society seemed strewn with kindling

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Democratic Party was facing a reckoning over its future direction and its level of radicalism. The battleground was the 2016 Democratic primaries, pitting leftist outsider Bernie Sanders against centrist insider Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton burst into public life during her husband’s presidency. Unusually accomplished and well-credentialed for a First Lady

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to capture her party’s nomination in 2008. Her nomination was seen as inevitable. That sense of inevitability was challenged from a truly unexpected direction. Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont and officially an Independent, ran against Clinton and attracted a shocking level of support in doing so. He had a proud

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term was drawing to a close. A crowded Democratic primary field had produced at least a half dozen candidates viewed as viable. Among them was Bernie Sanders, who once again sketched out an alternative to Democratic establishment politics based on programs like Medicare for All, which would have radically shifted the financial

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long time to come. Reading Ochs’s lyrics, I think of nothing so much as the nasty online battles in 2016 between supporters of socialist Bernie Sanders and liberal Hillary Clinton. Ochs depicts liberals are soft-left squishes, the type to endorse diversity in the abstract but to recoil from people of

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to LBJ’s deepening unpopularity and subsequent decision to withdraw from the race himself. Humphrey was in many ways the Hillary Clinton to McCarthy’s Bernie Sanders, the safe establishment choice, the “whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down there” choice, the path of incrementalism. And, just like Clinton, Humphrey lost to a scandal

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late adolescence, but the term has become more and more common in the years that have followed the 2016 Democratic primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. It’s a term that would be alien to the vast majority of ordinary people and is usually confined to internecine squabbles among the left

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the wealthy and powerful, including with her opponent Donald Trump, and was now lecturing the rest of us on standing with the marginalized. Of course, Bernie Sanders himself enjoyed a standard of living well above that of the average American, and in general, elite Democrats have had a somewhat tense relationship with

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tweets. I think class-first politics are our only hope, but there’s nothing inherently more serious or argumentatively responsible about class-first politics. The Bernie Sanders candidacies represented a far more grounded and pragmatic vision of left engagement than you typically find; that so many of the braying “leftist” accounts think

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op-eds in the New York Times than in earning votes. The popular economically populist agenda of the Democrats can inspire, as seen in the Bernie Sanders campaigns, but Democratic fealty to “the groups”—the nonprofits and foundations that hire overeducated young staffers who write position papers and lobby—seems to chain

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problems for so long that calling for it is a cliché. Organizations like the Democratic Socialists for America and journals like Jacobin call for it; Bernie Sanders works it into his speeches; left podcasters present it as one of the basic requirements of a reborn American left. There have been some high

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we must ostentatiously put identity issues first. That, after all, was the story of the 2016 Democratic primary, where the old-school class politics of Bernie Sanders were pitted against the purposefully complex intersectionality of Hillary Clinton. What approach wins the day will help determine the future of the left and its

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://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2020-democratic-candidates-move-left-progressive-climate-change/story?id=63489543. “may make it difficult for”: Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, “Bernie Sanders Wins Nevada Caucuses, Strengthening His Primary Lead,” New York Times, February 22, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/us/politics

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/bernie-sanders-nevada-caucus.html. It was widely reported: Carol E. Lee, Kristen Welker, Josh Lederman, and Amanda Golden, “Looking for Obama’s Hidden Hand in Candidates

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-primary. In January 2016, The Guardian’s: Ziyad, “Democratic Candidates Had a Chance.” As Reason magazine pointed out: Robby Soave, “Former Clinton Campaign Staffer Accuses Bernie Sanders of Failing to Mention Race, Gender in Speech That Explicitly Mentioned Race, Gender,” Reason, March 4, 2019, https://reason.com/2019/03/04

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/bernie-sanders-zerlina-maxwell-race-gend/. But it is the case that: See, for one: Blair L. M. Kelley, “Biden Has Black Voters’ Support Over Sanders, and

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.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/biden-has-black-voters-support-over-sanders-it-s-not-ncna1150576. “In every one of the 27 primaries”: John Hudak, “Why Bernie Sanders Vastly Underperformed in the 2020 Primary,” Brookings, March 20, 2020, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/03/20/why

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-bernie-sanders-vastly-underperformed-in-the-2020-primary/. “The label ‘class reductionist’ ”: Asad Haider, “How Calling Someone a ‘Class Reductionist’ Became a Lefty Insult,” Salon, July 25,

Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports From a Sinking Society

by Thomas Frank  · 18 Jun 2018  · 182pp  · 55,234 words

behind every scam that was to come. What I describe in this volume is a vast panorama of such scams—a republic of rip-offs. Bernie Sanders, the archetypal reform figure of our time, likes to say that “the business model of Wall Street is fraud,” but in truth we could say

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over Trump by an unprecedented ratio of fifty-seven to two. But it was the news media’s attitude toward yet a third politician, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, that best revealed the peculiar politics of the media in this time of difficulty and transition (or, depending on your panic threshold, industry

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proposals. When Sanders was finally defeated in June, the same paper waved him goodbye with a bedtime-for-Grandpa headline: “Hillary Clinton Made History, but Bernie Sanders Stubbornly Ignored It.” I decided to approach this question by examining the opinion pages of the Washington Post, the conscience of the nation’s political

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Post, the publication that defines the limits of the permissible in the capital city. * * * Why should anyone care today that certain pundits were unkind to Bernie Sanders? The election is long over. His campaign is, as we like to say, history. Still, I think that what befell the Vermont senator at the

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large paychecks for pedestrian speeches, tape-recorded boasts about groping women, or any of that stuff. An alternative hypothesis is required for what happened to Bernie Sanders, and I want to propose one that takes into account who the media are in these rapidly changing times. As we shall see, for the

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members of the highly educated, white-collar cohort, she was not just a candidate but a colleague, the living embodiment of their professional worldview. In Bernie Sanders and his “political revolution,” on the other hand, these same professionals saw something kind of horrifying: a throwback to the low-rent Democratic politics of

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, that nation’s status as a manufacturing paradise. But the factor that really mattered was that the Post’s pundit platoon just seemed to despise Bernie Sanders. The rolling barrage against him began during the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, when it first dawned on Washington that the Vermonter might have a

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pretty liberal on social issues. “Reviewing this history,” he harrumphed, “you could almost get the impression billionaires have done more to advance progressive causes than Bernie Sanders has.” On January 27, with the Iowa caucuses just days away, the Post columnist Dana Milbank nailed it with a headline: “Nominating Sanders Would Be

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politician selling his own brand of fiction to a slice of the country that eagerly wants to buy it.” Stung by the Post’s trolling, Bernie Sanders fired back angrily from the campaign trail in Iowa—which in turn allowed no fewer than three of the paper’s writers to report on

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case, corruption via billionaires and campaign contributions. Delusions all. And then, amazingly enough, the Post ran an op-ed bearing the headline “The Case for Bernie Sanders (in Iowa).” It was not an endorsement of Sanders, of course (“This is not an endorsement of Sanders,” its author wrote), but instead of a

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on crime, when welfare was being reformed, and when free trade was accorded its proper respect. Ah, but none of this was to imply that Bernie Sanders, flouter of economic consensus, was a friend to the working class. Here, too, he was written off as a failure. Instead of encouraging the lowly

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reality wrong—that there are many examples of sweeping political achievement in U.S. history, that even the most ideological politicians sometimes compromise, or that Bernie Sanders (unlike Ted Cruz) actually works well with his Senate colleagues—is only to begin unpacking the errors here. What matters more, for our purposes, is

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be impossible possible”? The reason so many Post pundits automatically embrace incrementalism, I think, is that it allows them to avoid taking difficult issues seriously. Bernie Sanders ran for the presidency by proposing reforms that these prestigious commentators, for whatever reason, found distasteful. Rather than grapple with his ideas, however, they simply

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group, journalists aren’t economically secure. The boom years of journalistic professionalization are long over. Newspapers are museum pieces today, every bit as much as Bernie Sanders’s New Deal policies. The newsroom layoffs never end: in 2014 alone, 3,800 full-time editorial personnel got the ax, and the bloodletting continues

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party’s number one concern, several more suitable candidates were ready to go. There was Joe Biden, with his powerful plainspoken style, and there was Bernie Sanders, an inspiring and largely scandal-free figure. Each of them would probably have beaten Trump, but neither of them would really have served the interests

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and back to the economic left. There are some indications that Democratic politicans have finally understood this. Elizabeth Warren’s star is on the rise. Bernie Sanders is touring the country and reminding people that class politics are back whether we like it or not. * * * But the media and political establishments, I

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mid-1960s. 2.  Here is how I came to this figure. I used the Nexis electronic search service to find all Washington Post stories mentioning Bernie Sanders printed between January 1 and May 31, 2016, and identified as “editorial copy.” Judgments of what constituted “negative” and “positive” were entirely subjective. In arriving

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

by John B. Judis  · 11 Sep 2016  · 177pp  · 50,167 words

Neoliberalism and Its Enemies: Perot, Buchanan, the Tea Party, and Occupy Wall Street Chapter Three The Silent Majority and the Political Revolution: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Chapter Four The Rise of European Populism Chapter Five The Limits of Leftwing Populism: Syriza and Podemos Chapter Six Rightwing Populism on the March in

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Why Is It Important? Populist parties and candidates are on the move in the United States and Europe. Donald Trump has won the Republican nomination; Bernie Sanders came in a very strong second to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. And these candidacies came on the heels of the Tea Party and

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’s Party to George Wallace No one, not even Donald Trump, expected him to get the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Similarly, no one, including Bernie Sanders, expected that up through the California primary in June, the Vermont senator would still be challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Trump’s success

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in 1932 and helped drive the Roosevelt administration to develop a new politics to sustain its majority. Together, these movements established the populist framework that Bernie Sanders, who described himself both as a democratic socialist and as a progressive, would adopt during his 2016 campaign. As liberal critics would point out during

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autonomy and satisfaction in their work, would begin voting for the Democrats. They became critics of unregulated capitalism, and their descendants would provide much of Bernie Sanders’s support. The Democrats began building an odd coalition of the minority poor with upper-middle-class whites. There would no longer be a clear

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decide to run for president in 2016. The Silent Majority and the Political Revolution: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders In an interview with the Washington Post in July 2015, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley dismissed Bernie Sanders as a “protest candidate.” “I’m not running for protest candidate, I’m running for President

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to the general election, he began reemphasizing these themes in his speeches. In a June 22 speech on “The Stakes of this Election,” Trump asked “Bernie Sanders’s voters to join our movement: so together we can fix the system for all Americans. Importantly, this includes fixing all of our many disastrous

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Democrats argued that his proposals were impractical because they would never get through a Republican congress. A column in New York magazine was entitled, “What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand About American Politics.” Sanders responded that to obtain any of these reforms, there would have to be a “political revolution” that pitted

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/2016/03/how_donald_trump_happened_racism_against_barack_obama.html 18weakness as a frontrunner: See http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-01/what-bernie-sanders-gets-about-millennials. 21the legend goes: McMath, p. 75. 22the gold standard: Robert C. McMath, Jr., American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898, Hill and

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of Radical America,” New York Times, August 1, 2012. CHAPTER THREE 62“protest candidate”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/03/bernie-sanders-seen-as-a-protest-candidate-says-democratic-rival-martin-omalley/. 62“Trump’s campaign is a sideshow”: http://www.huffing-tonpost.com/entry/a-note

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-priebus/. On Sanders’s life story, see John B. Judis, “The Bern Supremacy,” National Journal, November 19, 2015; Harry Jaffe, Why Bernie Sanders Matters, Regan Arts, 2015; Tim Murphy, “How Bernie Sanders Learned to Be a Real Politician,” Mother Jones, May 26, 2015; and Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “I’m Right and Everybody Else

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Messenger, December 23, 1971. 81“buy the United States Congress”: “The Rachel Maddow Show,” MSNBC, April 15, 2015. 81“What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand About American Politics:” Jonathan Chait, “What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand About American Politics,” New York, January 27, 2016. 81“facile calls for revolution:” “It Was Better to Bern

The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific

by David Bianculli  · 15 Nov 2016  · 676pp  · 203,386 words

planned to be on the TV screens in political back rooms and TV control rooms. Reflecting real-life events, that meant less Ted Cruz, more Bernie Sanders. As for the freedom offered by writing and presenting the political satire of BrainDead during the presidential campaign year of 2016, Michelle says, “You only

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: Woody Allen’s Radio Days, 1987, New York Stories, 1989, and Whatever Works, 2009. TV: Clear History, 2013, HBO; Saturday Night Live (guest starring as Bernie Sanders), 2015–16, NBC. Larry David’s television debut was as a founding member of the repertory company of Fridays, a late-night variety sketch series

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admitted. Here, too, there was one final twist ending. After that SNL special, later in 2015, Larry David returned to play the Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders—a live sketch comedy role bigger, better, and more warmly received than anything he’d done on Fridays or Saturday Night Live. It became a

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with Lorne Michaels, and Lorne told him that he had gotten texts, during the debate, from some of his friends, saying I should be doing Bernie Sanders.” The facts that he and Sanders are about the same age, are Jewish, and grew up not that far from each other in Brooklyn of

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