Bernie Sanders Is Suddenly Everywhere

The party spent ten years calling Bernie a crank, and now he's the most popular elected official in America, with up to two-thirds of voters backing Medicare for All. The establishment sneered at him and lost twice to a game show host. Maybe listen to the man this time.

“Bernie Sanders is in huge demand on the campaign trail,” Russell Berman reports. He spoke with the 85-year-old senator about how the Democratic Party has shifted toward his policies. 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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“He will be seen as one of the most consequential political leaders of the 21st century,” Representative Ro Khanna of California, one of several Democrats who are likely to try to carry the Sanders mantle to the White House, told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

#democracy #Congress #Medicare www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... "That Sanders finds himself, a decade after his first run for the presidency, arguably at the peak of his influence is all the more remarkable given that he recently turned 85...."

''One reason Sanders is so much busier this fall is that so many of the candidates running in big races have him at least partially to thank for their nomination. Sanders endorsed more than 80 candidates for federal, state, and local offices this year—a higher total, his aides told me, than [...]''

Bernie Sanders Thinks the Democratic Party Is Moving Toward Him www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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