Why did Bernie Sanders fail?
In the third in an occasional series on the US presidential election and the Left, we talk to Angela Nagle and Michael Tracey about their analysis of Bernie Sanders' campaign. We put to bed some bad arguments as to why Bernie didn't win the nomination, and examine some better ones: was the campaign was too establishment-friendly? too "left"? too middle-class? too anti-nationalist?... or are structural factors to blame instead?
And we ponder the end of the union of Old and New Lefts, of cultural liberalism and socialism. And the most worrying of all: was Bernie just a blip?
Reading:
/377/ The Locked-Up Country ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor
Excerpt: /376/ AufheBonus Bonus - Nov 2023
Excerpt: /375/ From Hyperliberalism to the Grayzone
/374/ You’re Gonna Need Representation ft. Vincent Bevins
Excerpt: /373/ Take a Stand: Be Neutral! ft. Lily Lynch
Excerpt: /372/ Reading Club: Globalisation (I)
/371/ The Milei Massacre Didn’t Happen ft. Ernesto Seman
/370/ Dead Ends in Israel & Palestine ft. Alex Gourevitch
/369/ Information-War and War-Politics ft. Jacob Siegel
/367/ Don’t Pay Them Back ft. Jerome Roos
/366/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (IV)
/365/ It’s So Over (Again) ft. Ryan Zickgraf
UNLOCKED: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
Excerpt: /364/ The Eternal Sunshine of the Bourgeoisie
UNLOCKED: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs
Excerpt: /363/ Outsourcing the State
/362/ Life Doesn’t Have to Zuck ft. Cory Doctorow
Excerpt: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
Excerpt: /360/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (III)
/359/ Apollo Gets High ft. Benjamin Fong
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