2016 Election: Sanders, Trump Contest Party Establishment;  Professor Ferguson, 1 of 2
Channel: GVFJ
Date: 2016-04-22

Political expectations have been shaken in both the Republican and Democratic Parties by the spectacular rise of two candidates: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

What are the social bases of their respective challenges? What accounts for the timing of their extraordinary successes?

Author Vanessa Williamson, Prof. Cedric Johnson, and Prof. Thomas Ferguson discuss these campaigns and their historical contexts, as well as their likely future trajectories.