Two weeks before the 2020 Iowa caucuses, Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, the intellectual thought leader and emotional avatar of young Democrats across America, gave a rally in Ames. The lines stretched around the block, thousands strong.7 The event opened with the popular rock band Portugal. The Man; one of the musicians, Zack Carothers, then got up and ushered onstage three Native American women, explaining, “the land that we are on is not ours.” The women then called for “land reparations” and explained that Iowa had been stolen from indigenous tribes.
