“A socialist, essentially, is someone who believes injustice is bad, equality is good, and solidarity is morally necessary. Lots of people who don’t define themselves as socialists believe those things to be true”https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1231937616171487232 …
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“What sets Sanders apart from many liberal Democrats isn’t his voting record or even his policy proposals. It is an animating belief that our political and economic system is unjust, and its successes do not remotely blunt its failures”
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Thijs Niks Retweeted Molly Ball
“In 2016, Molly Ball made a sharp observation on why Trump was beating the rest of the Republican field: ‘All the other candidates say “Americans are angry, and I understand,”’ she wrote. ‘Trump says, “I’m angry.”’ Sanders, too, is angry.”https://twitter.com/mollyesque/status/687852860227325952 …
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“Sanders helped build parts of that political and economic system, too, but he doesn’t celebrate its successes. He lives in fury over its failures”
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“When [voters] hear [Sanders], they hear someone who wants universal health care, not totalitarianism. And when they look at his record, they see someone who has compromised with the system, but not been compromised by the system.”
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