Tuesday, September 01, 2020

"It Is, Perhaps, a Socialist Majority in Embryo"

"Sanders had a different theory, and his campaigns assembled a different coalition, centered on younger, lower-income voters from Brownsville to Duluth. In 2020, that working-class coalition was not enough to win the Democratic nomination. And no, Sanders did not manage to turn history on its head and bring the vast reservoir of alienated, apolitical workers back to primary politics.
"But by 2032, today's Bernie voters under fifty will likely represent a majority, and certainly a plurality, within the party electorate. What sort of left will be there to greet them?"

Matt Karp at Jacobin looks at Bernie Sanders's legacy.

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