Perspectives: Bernie Sanders's Exit from 2020 Race
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From the Left
President Sanders Isn’t Happening in 2021. A Political Revolution Still Could.
The Bernie Sanders campaign was ahead of its time — possibly by as little as three months.
Had the Democratic primary been held in the year 2040, the socialist’s overwhelming support among millennials and Zoomers would have made him the presumptive nominee by mid-March (for the purposes of this hypothetical, Sanders remains spry at age 98, and human civilization remains a thing in 20 years). Although the Vermont senator ended his 2020 campaign this week boasting a smaller coalition than he’d assembled four years prior, his resilient hold on a...
From the Center
Sanders — And The Media — Learned The Wrong Lessons From Trump In 2016
As I’m sure you’ve probably guessed, this passage seems like it could be about Donald Trump’s campaign for the Republican nomination in 20161 — but it’s actually about Bernie Sanders’s quest for the Democratic nomination this year. It comes from an April 2019 feature by the Atlantic’s Edward-Isaac Dovere that I consider to be a lodestar for Sanders’s strategy since it contains a lot of on-the-record reporting from Sanders campaign.2
The article also reveals how the conventional wisdom about how primary campaigns have changed, in light of Trump winning...
From the Right
Bernie Sanders, the god who failed
Before ending his second run for president on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders was a beacon of false hope to those who lack any memory of socialism’s immense human cost.
He helped people believe, for a time, that there is a simple answer to all of life’s problems and that it resides in a powerful central government.
Sanders did one thing further: He also demonstrated that, as radical as it has become, the Democratic Party of 2020 is not as ready for socialism as it once seemed.
In the 19th century,...
