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Is Brand New Congress the Future of Progressive Politics?
The goal is audacious: harness the enthusiasm and fund-raising muscle of the Sanders campaign to elect an entirely new Congress committed to the same platform.
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His foreign policy isn’t an alternative to US empire. It’s a cruder rendition of it.
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Trump garners support from both those who would be seduced by flagrantly racist appeals and those who would be offended.
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