The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders quite rightly called for would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower. Today’s Republicans, meanwhile, have moved so far right in their dedication to the wealthy and the corporate sector that they cannot hope to get votes on their actual programs. Instead, they have turned to mobilizing sectors of the population that have always been there, just not as an organized political force: evangelicals, nativists, racists, and the victims of the forms of globalization designed to set working people around the world in competition with one another
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