![]() ![]() "White workers were encouraged to despise, and protect themselves from, their black neighbors, or face losing what they had. ![]() The book brings into focus Sanders's understanding of the role of race in American politics, which he sees as essentially similar to that of the southern planter plutocracy before the Civil War: Sanders sees racism as a tool of plutocrats On the off chance you don't feel like reading a nearly 20-year-old political autobiography yourself, here are three ways doing so helped me understand Sanders's thinking about the political revolution. "I have learned from the experiences recounted in this book that political revolutions are possible," Sanders writes. What, then, explains Sanders’s own faith in the idea? To get a better grasp of the candidate's thinking, I read Sanders's autobiography, Outsider in the White House, which was originally published in 1997 and rereleased for his current campaign. When we interviewed six political science professors about Sanders’s general election chances, none saw much evidence that it could succeed. To many observers of American politics, this plan sounds quixotic, unrealistic, even downright delusional. ![]() Faced with a Republican Party that has an apparent lock on the House of Representatives, Sanders has vowed to transform American government through a "political revolution" that will bring millions of low-income voters to the ballot box. Even those who broadly share Bernie Sanders’s goals are often skeptical of his means to achieve them. ![]()
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