How did the Democrat Party move drastically leftward in the last decade or so? Many point to the elections of Barack Obama (notably 2012), but the shift, according to Tony Mazur, happened with the rise of Bernie Sanders. Tony lays out how the Vermont senator isn't just a mitten-clad grandpa yelling at the sky, but a man whose influence forever shaped the progressive coalition and moved the party to the far, far left.

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