Sanders steps back into role as anti-oligarch crusader

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5167897-bernie-sanders-democrats-economic-populism/

18 comments

  1. A bit from the article:

    > Nearly a decade after his first presidential run, Bernie Sanders is stepping back into his favorite role: billionaire basher.
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    > In Iowa, the state that helped propel him to national attention, the Vermont senator recently scolded elites for fueling inequality and economic unrest. And while other Democrats have joined his message, none have the popularity that Sanders still wields at 83.
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    > The Democratic socialist has indeed been shouting his concerns about wealth concentration for decades. He’s an equal critic of both parties’ use of corporate money to move their agendas, picking up enemies on both sides.
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    > But as he calls out President Trump and Elon Musk, the president’s most influential lieutenant, he’s also guiding the future direction of the Democratic Party toward economic populism with some traction, an unthinkable feat way back when.

  3. How many more years out until we have a Russia style government where people who speak out against the corruption and powerful start falling out of windows?

  4. He really needs to take in someone as an “apprentice” to take his torch. Probably should be a young white straight male as we see what happens in this country if its anyone else.

  5. He’s one of the few who will, which is a shame.

    He’s in his 80s. He should be retiring. Mentoring the next generation of Democrats. But Democratic Leadership has shortsightedly become a good ol boys club, with younger voices silenced.

    I hope Sanders and the rest of the progressive caucus have someone in mind to run in 2028. AOC might be her, but she would be 39 at the time of running.

    Though, after the two oldest Presidents in our history, maybe we’re ready for the youngest?

  6. Where are all the Centrist Dems telling me Bernie is a loser!

    Where’s Hillary and Biden at during this? Whose left fighting!

    You want someone to blame for Trump look in the mirror!

  7. Just imagine if he was our president in 2016 instead of Trump. America is on a very different course

  8. Sanders is saying all the right things … but he has failed to build a successor and a strong organisation.

  9. Sanders has so far delivered the best responses to the absolute insanity happening under Trump

  11. Man, liberals really can’t hide their disdain for Bernie. And that’s why they’re gonna keep fuckin losing.

  13. Waiting for the DNC to discredit him in one, two, three….

  14. Feel the BERN! And fuck Hillary Clinton. She had no business being anywhere near a presidential ballot in 2016.

  15. Over here we label the points he’s making as “common sense”. You guys have been conned by the political establishment, the Democrats included.

  16. He has never left that role, to be honest. If you want to know the moment our timeline jumped ship at the TVA, it was when we failed to elect him as president, and we got Hillary and the majority of the current DNC instead.

  17. And the DNC will do everything possible to sideline him, because the Democratic Party are professional losers.

  18. He never stepped out of that role. Bernie’s been on point for decades.

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