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Don't Underestimate Bernie Sanders
The Vermont senator's authentic outrage that the super-rich have distorted Americas economy and bought its government will find an eager audience.Peter Beinart 6:00 AM ET
Dont underestimate me, declared newly announced Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. That may be good advice.
By conventional standards, Sanders candidacy is absurd: Hes not well known, he doesnt have big money donors, hes not charismatic, and by Beltway standards, hes ideologically extreme. But candidates with these liabilities have caught fire before. Think of Jerry Brown, who despite little funding and an oddball reputation outlasted a series of more conventional candidates to emerge as Bill Clintons most serious challenger in 1992. Or Pat Buchanan, who struck terror in the GOP establishment by winning the New Hampshire primary in 1996. Or Howard Dean, who began 2003 in obscurity and ended it as the Democratic frontrunner (before collapsing in the run-up to the Iowa Caucuses). Or Ron Paul, who in 2012 finished second in New Hampshire and came within three points of winning Iowa.
What did all these insurgents share? They gave authentic voice to the grievances of their time. In the wake of a congressional banking scandal and a congressional pay hike, Brown vowed to take take back America from the confederacy of corruption, careerism, and campaign consulting in Washington. In an era of escalating globalization, Buchanan promised a conservatism that looks out for the men and women of this country whose jobs have been sacrificed on the altars of trade deals done for the benefit of trans-national corporations who have no loyalty to our country. In a Democratic Party whose activists felt betrayed by their leaders support for the Iraq War, Dean pledged to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
in full: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/dont-underestimate-bernie-sanders/392450/
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Don't Underestimate Bernie Sanders (Original Post)
Jefferson23
May 2015
OP
Who could not admire such an informed, hard-working, conscientious Senator? He is so needed. n/t
Judi Lynn
May 2015
#1
He is going to do a great deal of good, I can't even put into words how thrilled
Jefferson23
May 2015
#2
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)1. Who could not admire such an informed, hard-working, conscientious Senator? He is so needed. n/t
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)2. He is going to do a great deal of good, I can't even put into words how thrilled
I am he is in the running.