Bernie Sanders's Socialist Revolution Is Happening, Very Slowly
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8x5b3x/bernie-sanderss-socialist-revolution-is-happening-very-slowly
Last week more than a dozen socialists won office around the country after taking inspiration from the 76-year-old Vermont firebrand.
Democrats won off-year elections across the country last week for many reasons, but let's pause for a second and give Bernie Sanders some credit. Among the historic victories Democrats earned in Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere were a handful of out-and-proud actual socialists who won local office. It could be a precursor to an upsurge in leftists scoring bigger wins in next year's midterms, but it's both a validation of Sanders and proof that the movement he built during the heated 2016 primaries isn't going away anytime soon...
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