Historian Matt Karp has written a wonderful piece in today’s Jacobin magazine entitled “The War on Bernie Sanders.” In this piece he details the “virtually unprecedented attack against Bernie Sanders” by the Democratic elites. If you haven’t read his previous two pieces in Jacobin, I highly recommend that you do. His first piece, “The Bernie Coalition” compares the Sanders coalition thus far assembled with the Obama coalition of 2008 who did exceptionally well with high income liberals and contrasts Sanders’ more working class coalition with other popular “liberal” darlings like Bill Bradley. His second piece, “Bernie and the Liberals” amplifies his previous piece by noting that unlike the analysis put forth by the professional pundit class, Bernie Sanders has significant appeal beyond self identified liberals.
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