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Party-pooping pointer to the future
A new book shows how Bernie Sanders's challenge to the Democratic Party machine during the 2016 US election presaged a ground-breaking shift in progressive politics, says JOHN HAYLETT
U. Senator Bernie Sanders

Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Left Movement
by Heather Gautney
(Verso, £6.99)

 

SELF-CAPTIONED democratic socialist Bernie Sanders came within a whisker of defeating Wall Street’s candidate Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination.

 

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