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.
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…