Sanders thrived in a two-way race and came closer than Paul to the nomination, even if he never quite threatened to pull off a Barack Obama-style upset against Clinton.
"Socialism" is no longer an epithet in American politics and Sanders proved there was valuable ground to the left of Obama.
Can Sanders do it again? To get a sense of how the Bernie revolution might eat its own, let's reflect on why he fell short the first time.
Hailing from one of the whitest states in the country, he never made inroads in the communities of color that have become such a large part of the Democratic primary electorate-and the crucial reason Obama prevailed where Sanders' fellow Vermonter Howard Dean did not.
So too would the fact that while Sanders is reliably liberal on social issues, including the obligatory support for abortion on demand, he is clearly not animated by them.
Now these Sanders critics will have liberal women-in some cases, women of color-to choose from in the primaries.
The modern Democratic Party is like a parade marching leftward so rapidly that it is hard for anyone, even Bernie Sanders, to keep up for long.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-the-revolution-could-devour-bernie/
"Socialism" is no longer an epithet in American politics and Sanders proved there was valuable ground to the left of Obama.
Can Sanders do it again? To get a sense of how the Bernie revolution might eat its own, let's reflect on why he fell short the first time.
Hailing from one of the whitest states in the country, he never made inroads in the communities of color that have become such a large part of the Democratic primary electorate-and the crucial reason Obama prevailed where Sanders' fellow Vermonter Howard Dean did not.
So too would the fact that while Sanders is reliably liberal on social issues, including the obligatory support for abortion on demand, he is clearly not animated by them.
Now these Sanders critics will have liberal women-in some cases, women of color-to choose from in the primaries.
The modern Democratic Party is like a parade marching leftward so rapidly that it is hard for anyone, even Bernie Sanders, to keep up for long.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-the-revolution-could-devour-bernie/
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