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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Bernie has the right line. Keep the heat on Clinton.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Bernie has the right line. Keep the heat on Clinton.:

Bernie has the right line. Keep the heat on Clinton.



“I will be vigorously in opposition, and I will make that very clear.” -- Sen. Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders just gave his millennial supporters (and the rest of us) the best reason not to stay home on election day. He wants us to be part of the movement that defeats Trump and elects Clinton so he and we can become "be the thorn in her side" after Nov. 8th.

It's the thorn that went missing after Obama's historic victory in 2008 when the anti-war and other progressive movements, active during the Bush administration, went to sleep. Many even thought the election of our first African-American president marked the start of the "post-racial" era.

In an interview with the Washington Post on Monday, Sanders made clear that, if she wins the presidency Nov. 8, Clinton will have to contend not only with Republicans who oppose her agenda but also with progressives who were not excited by her campaign and have long feared that she plans to govern as a centrist, in partnership with her new-found friends among the neocons.

“We won 22 states and 46 percent of the pledged delegates, 13.4 million votes . . .and a majority of the younger people, the future of the country. . . . That gives me a lot of leverage, leverage that I intend to use.”
He laid out his post-election strategy and said the he and other senators, including those who Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Bernie has the right line. Keep the heat on Clinton.: