Bernie Sanders’s Long Run
Reagan’s classic move was to ignore Congress and speak directly to the American people. But Sanders’s version of The Speech is upended Debsianism:
There is a war going on in this country. I am not referring to the war in Iraq or the war in Afghanistan. I am talking about a war being waged by some of the wealthiest and most powerful people against working families, against the disappearing and shrinking middle class of our country. The billionaires of America are on the warpath. They want more and more and more.
This is a war that’s been going on, oh, since 1968, which is when economic inequality in the United States, like the new right, began its long rise.