02 February, 2016

The surprising success of Bernie Sanders's insurgency should be a wake-up call to the Democratic establishment - Vox

The surprising success of Bernie Sanders's insurgency should be a wake-up call to the Democratic establishment - Vox:

This is a party that has no viable plan for winning the House of Representatives, that's been pushed to a historic low point in terms of state legislative seats, and that somehow lost the governor's mansions in New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois.
It's a party, in other words, that was clearly in need of some dialogue, debate, and contestation over what went wrong and how to fix it. But instead of encouraging such a dialogue, the party tried to cut it off. That leaves them with Sanders's political revolution theory. It doesn't seem very plausible to me, but at least it's something.


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