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Bernie’s Working-Class Fairy Tale Has a Big Blindspot

The progressive folk hero's mantra has always been: "Fix the economy, and magically racism goes away!" Except it doesn’t, and Black voters know better.

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Sep 01, 2025
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) campaigns at the University of Michigan in 2020. | Andrew Roth

A few weeks ago, I watched Bernie Sanders sit across from Dana Bash and, against my better judgment, let the volume stay on. I expected the usual sermon about millionaires and billionaires — you know, the one we’ve all memorized by now, where he hunches over t…

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Political science prof & political psych nerd. Writes about groupthink, power, & American nonsense. Sometimes funny on purpose. 📬 professorealy.substack.com 🐦 kmezdoesit.bsky.social
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