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.

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…