Bernie Sanders Hearkens Back to Old-Time Socialist Presidential Candidate Eugene Debs
Posted on AllSides November 28th, 2015
From The Center
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s upstart presidential candidacy is being fueled by voter sentiment that hasn’t been so prominent for nearly a century: a fight between the economic haves and have-nots.
It’s a stewing sense of unfairness last tapped to broad affect by a couple of his political heroes: socialist presidential candidates Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas, each of whom lost five times in the early part of the 20th century.
While they
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