In Iowa, Bernie Sanders Picks Up Where He Left Off — With 2016
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on March 9.
For some Democratic voters who didn’t support Sanders in 2016, a primary contest that lasted until the eve of the convention and left Democratic voters bitter and divided, the 77-year-old Vermont senator is still fighting the last war. from young people, as Sanders has become fond of noting, than Clinton and Donald Trump combined. “And by the way, those ideas we talked about here in Iowa four years ago that seemedradical at the time — well, today, virtually all of those ideas are supported by a majority of the American people.”
On stage in Iowa, Sanders was still railing against the very “establishment Democrats” he’s helped influence and worked alongside in the years since 2016. In Council Bluffs and Iowa City, at his first two stops of the trip, he cast the party elite as one in a long list of powerful forces that would, he warned, oppose his campaign, including the Republican Party, Wall Street, the pharmaceutical companies, the fossil fuel industry, and the “prison industrial complex.
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