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Bernie Sanders announces another run for president

But he is no longer the ideological outsider in the Democratic primary

United States

Feb 19th 2019| WASHINGTON, DC

 

 

 

 

 

BERNIE SANDERS, the self-declared socialist senator from Vermont, announced his encore presidential run on February 19th. After leading an unexpectedly strong revolt against Hillary Clinton in 2016, Mr Sanders hastened the race to the left among the current crop of Democratic contenders. He is unwilling to pass the baton just yet. His much-lampooned slogans—Medicare for all, a $15 nationwide minimum wage and free tuition at public colleges—are now mainstream. Among presidential hopefuls, fealty to these mantras can even seem mandatory.

In his announcement video, an unslick, 11-minute monologue, Mr Sanders sounded triumphant about his conquest of the Democratic Party. “Three years ago during our 2016 campaign, when we brought forth our progressive agenda, we were told that our ideas were ‘radical’ and they were ‘extreme’,” Mr Sanders says. “Well, three years have come and gone.” He sees a successful 2020 run as a fitting coda to his revolution. The antagonists remain the same this time around—billionaires, especially President Donald Trump; multinational companies; bad trade deals. But Mr Sanders seemed keen to address enduring sexism towards women and racism against blacks, two groups that did not greatly warm to him in 2016.

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