Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Isn’t Over

Since the election Bernie Sanders has staged events in multiple states, the New Yorker writes.  At every one, he speaks about the suffering of small-town Americans, and his belief that the Democrats can help them. Hillary Clinton’s loss gave his efforts a new urgency.




Since the election Bernie Sanders has staged events in multiple states, the New Yorker writes. At every one, he speaks about the suffering of small-town Americans, and his belief that the Democrats can help them. Hillary Clinton’s loss gave his efforts a new urgency. The electoral map, with its imposing swaths of red, pointed to a crisis confronting American liberalism. Donald Trump may have lost the popular vote, but, as he likes to point out, he won 2,626 counties to Clinton’s four hundred and eighty-seven. Many of these counties are in states that Sanders won last year, campaigning on a platform of economic populism—Medicare for all, tuition-free college, and a fifteen-dollar minimum wage. Sanders told me that Trump was smart enough to understand that the Democratic Party had turned its back on millions of people: “He said, ‘Hey, I hear you. I’m going to do something for you.’ And he lied.”

 


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