Sometimes a Movement Needs a Leader: The Bernie Sanders Campaign
Category: POLITICS
What the corporate media cannot see is that the era of the Bill Clinton "New Democrat" is finished.  In the real world, the crash of 2008 blew the lid off the bipartisan "Washington consensus" with its blind faith in the benevolence of capitalism. But now I see a silver lining in the absurdity of the "permanent campaign": Bernie Sanders has a whole year to build a vibrant, multifaceted social movement.
By Joseph A. Palermo, ContributorProfessor, historian, author, 2015-08-23