Democrats’ Slow Bern

“A decade after MAGA stole Bernie Sanders’ populist thunder, a slate of Sanders-backed Democrats stole it back. Now the 85-year-old senator has a warning for his party: Don’t blow it this time,” Politico reports.

Said Sanders: “These are people who ran on a progressive agenda, taking on a Republican district, and they won. We’ve got to rethink politics in the sense that we can win over millions of Republicans and independents who are struggling economically if we focus on the issues that are important.”

“Rethinking politics, in Sanders’ telling, means a clean break from the Democratic Party built on the Kamala Harris platform — the Goldman-adjacent donor class and consultants who, for years, muddled economic messaging with culture-war fights Republicans were only too happy to pick.”