Sunday, July 12, 2015

Todd Gitlin On "The Bernie Sanders Moment"

++"At least Hippies got the roads plowed" was the Vermont retort to the return of Republicans to Burlington, Vermont after GOP budget cuts left the city defenseless in a blizzard.

++Read the New York Times op-ed because it is a primer about the Left's "politics of possibility" and how Vermont embraced it with old SDSers and Bernie Sanders. 

++The piece takes you from Barry Commoner's presidential campaign to Ralph Nader in 2000, which damaged the idea of a third party candidate.

++Gitlin traces Sanders' left roots and how he became electable.


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