Bernie Sanders Lets Loose on the Democratic Party, the Midterms and 2028 – POLITICO

Bernie Sanders Lets Loose on the Democratic Party, the Midterms and 2028The 84-year-old progressive champion built a movement. Could it survive without him?

David Sirota has a way of thinking about Bernie Sanders’ career that he’s been kicking around for years. Sirota worked for Sanders in the House in the late 1990s and again on his 2020 presidential campaign, serving as a senior adviser and speechwriter for the progressive champion. And more than a decade after Sanders launched his first presidential run, improbably transforming from Vermont’s independent gadfly senator into an insurgent political rock star, Sirota has settled on a surprising historical analog for his old boss.

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