the guy who's still blacked out on MSNything..mazel tov!!!
The Democratic Party now belongs to Bernie Sanders
A voice crying in the wilderness is supposed to be ignored, not rewarded with accolades and growing influence.
Bernie Sanders is the prophet with honor in the Democratic Party. The former socialist gadfly is now the socialist trendsetter.
This doesn’t mean he’ll be the next Democratic nominee for president, or even run. It doesn’t mean that his ideas are good (I consider them godawful), or that they’ll make for a salable platform for the Democratic Party (which I very much doubt).
It does mean that when it comes to domestic policy on the left, it’s Bernie’s world and the Democrats live in it.
Sanders was an irrelevance for a couple of decades in Congress. The Vermont independent ran in 2016 to get a higher profile, and succeeded not merely in that, but also in seriously challenging Hillary Clinton. He’s now a pacesetter in the party while she rues what might have been.
To be sure, much of this was inevitable. Whatever brake on the left Barack Obama represented was going to be released once he went home, especially if Democrats couldn’t hold the White House.
The advent of President Trump pressed the accelerator on the party’s radicalization.
yes, yes it did
https://nypost.com/2018/08/02/the-democratic-party-now-belongs-to-bernie-sanders/
In 2016, though, Sanders embodied the first real political expression of a post-Obama left, disappointed by his alleged incrementalism and determined to move beyond it.
His success represents a version of what has happened to center-left parties around the West, as they’ve collapsed or been eclipsed by new forces. The two-party system is a durable feature of American politics, so the Democrats aren’t going anywhere, but Sanders is an interloper. As Hillary complains, he’s “not even a Democrat.”
This isn’t a cutting attack. It doesn’t matter in the least to the Democrats in good standing who are vacuuming up Bernie’s ideas. You can hardly be a US senator who hopes to run for president if you aren’t co-sponsoring pillars of the Sanders agenda such as Medicare for All, free college and the $15 minimum wage.
“Just a few short years ago,” Sanders crowed last year, “we were told that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour was ‘radical.’ ” Indeed, he was told that, and for good reason. But he had five co-sponsors for a $15 bill in 2015 and has a majority of Senate Democrats now.
The Democratic Party now belongs to Bernie Sanders
A voice crying in the wilderness is supposed to be ignored, not rewarded with accolades and growing influence.
Bernie Sanders is the prophet with honor in the Democratic Party. The former socialist gadfly is now the socialist trendsetter.
This doesn’t mean he’ll be the next Democratic nominee for president, or even run. It doesn’t mean that his ideas are good (I consider them godawful), or that they’ll make for a salable platform for the Democratic Party (which I very much doubt).
It does mean that when it comes to domestic policy on the left, it’s Bernie’s world and the Democrats live in it.
Sanders was an irrelevance for a couple of decades in Congress. The Vermont independent ran in 2016 to get a higher profile, and succeeded not merely in that, but also in seriously challenging Hillary Clinton. He’s now a pacesetter in the party while she rues what might have been.
To be sure, much of this was inevitable. Whatever brake on the left Barack Obama represented was going to be released once he went home, especially if Democrats couldn’t hold the White House.
The advent of President Trump pressed the accelerator on the party’s radicalization.
yes, yes it did
https://nypost.com/2018/08/02/the-democratic-party-now-belongs-to-bernie-sanders/
In 2016, though, Sanders embodied the first real political expression of a post-Obama left, disappointed by his alleged incrementalism and determined to move beyond it.
His success represents a version of what has happened to center-left parties around the West, as they’ve collapsed or been eclipsed by new forces. The two-party system is a durable feature of American politics, so the Democrats aren’t going anywhere, but Sanders is an interloper. As Hillary complains, he’s “not even a Democrat.”
This isn’t a cutting attack. It doesn’t matter in the least to the Democrats in good standing who are vacuuming up Bernie’s ideas. You can hardly be a US senator who hopes to run for president if you aren’t co-sponsoring pillars of the Sanders agenda such as Medicare for All, free college and the $15 minimum wage.
“Just a few short years ago,” Sanders crowed last year, “we were told that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour was ‘radical.’ ” Indeed, he was told that, and for good reason. But he had five co-sponsors for a $15 bill in 2015 and has a majority of Senate Democrats now.
