By Steven Carroll
Our Revolution
Bernie Sanders
Our Revolution. By Bernie Sanders.
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Written after pre-selection defeat but before the election, Bernie Sanders writes, "We showed that millions of Americans want a bold, progressive agenda that takes on the billionaire class …". In many peoples' minds it's the "what if" to emerge from the US election. Donald Trump tapped into the disaffected and ignored by appealing to the worst in people: Sanders tapped into it by appealing to the best. Head to head, who would have won? The sense of energised mission and optimism that a 75-year-old Brooklyn Jew brought to US politics shines through: his radical agenda – reforming the market economy, minimum wage, medicare, a carbon price, free tuition at colleges – was the rallying call that drew the youth vote in significant numbers. And which may draw them back.