Bernie Sanders Touts Pop­ulist Vision at the DNC

Sen­a­tor Bernie Sanders (I‑VT) spoke at the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion Tues­day night in a fiery speech that laid out a work­er-ori­ent­ed, pop­ulist vision for Demo­c­ra­t­ic gov­er­nance. Point­ing to the dire state of the coun­try in 2020, he tout­ed the administration’s COVID record, argu­ing that it was proof that “when the polit­i­cal will is there, gov­ern­ment can effec­tive­ly deliv­er for our coun­try.”

Now, he sug­gest­ed, there is some­thing wrong with the way the U.S. is run, argu­ing that there are …