Tag: Bernie Sanders

• Young Bernie Supporters: We’re Not “Liberal”

  When will pollsters stop asking people — especially young people — how “liberal” they are? The Washington Post ran a story yesterday about how the younger voters in Iowa who went overwhelmingly for Sanders were surprisingly less liberal than one might have expected. Indeed, those who went hardest for Sanders weren’t those who considered themselves…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  February 6, 2016

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  Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, liberals, progressive, socialism

• Bernie Sanders and the emerging populist alignment

  There’s a lot wrong with how pundits (among others) tend to talk about movements. They may say, for example, “Occupy Wall Street — what did it accomplish? It didn’t go anywhere. Where is it now?” And what they fail to see is that Occupy Wall Street was not about itself—was not about existing forever as…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  February 1, 2016

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  #BlackLivesMatter, Bernie Sanders, Occupy Wall Street, social movements

• Democratic Party establishment’s advice to young people

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  January 30, 2016

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  #NoWeCant, Bernie Sanders, Bernie2016, Occupy Wall Street

• ‘Awkward’ socialists tarnishing the Democratic Party’s big business-loving brand

  Today in a Politico article titled “The Socialist Surge” Ben Schreckinger and Jonathan Topaz discuss how uncomfortable it is for the Democratic Party to have a self-identified socialist Presidential candidate—Bernie Sanders—picking up so much steam among the Democratic Party base. The sub-header reads: “The rise of Bernie Sanders is proving awkward for the Democratic Party.” You know what might…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  July 7, 2015

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  Bernie Sanders, Bernie2016, capitalism, socialism