"But if Wilentz were not so closely associated with the Clintons, he might now be claiming vindication as a Bernie bro ahead of his time. Thirty years ago, he was urging leftists not to give up on electoral politics and calling on Democrats to put working-class solidarity and a critique of corporate power at the center of their agenda. He even was one of America's first Bernie bros, celebrating the Burlington mayor's rise. Admittedly, by the time Sanders entered the Democratic primary in 2015 and began putting this strategy into practice, Wilentz had lined up behind Clinton."
Timothy Shenk at The Nation reviews Sean Wilentz's The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics and No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding.
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