Here's How Bernie Sanders May Be Changing Politics for Good

"Sanders wants to break up the biggest banks, double the minimum wage, and put the entire country on Medicare. And his message has been resonating.

Which, if you think about it, does sound kind of crazy. But if Sanders had the audacity to think he might stay in the ring long enough to pull together a genuine movement, it might be because he's done it before. Sanders' early years offer a blueprint for how a self-described socialist can, with the right breaks and enough persistence, make it in electoral politics. He didn't emerge into a national political force overnight. He almost never made it at all. In Vermont he discovered it wasn't enough to hold lofty ideas and wait for the revolution; he had to learn how to play the political game."

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Here's How Bernie Sanders May Be Changing Politics for Good | Mother Jones