This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on patreon.com and by Verso Books, which has books by loads of great left-wing authors perfect for dig listeners like you.

One book that you might like is crashing the party from the Bernie Sanders campaign to a progressive movement by Heather Gottney,

with an introduction from Adolfrey Jr.

Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes

and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary.

Since that upset, repeated polls have judged this Democratic socialist to be the most popular politician in the United States.

What lessons can be drawn from his surprising and searching campaign? Longtime author and activist Heather Gottney was a policy fellow in Sanders Washington, D.C. office, and a volunteer researcher and organizer on his presidential

campaign. In reviewing what enabled Sanders to reach out to an unprecedented number with a socialist

message and what stalled his progress, she draws lessons on the prospects and perils of building

a progressive movement in the United States. Gautney's poignant account of the

role that race and class played in the election cycle, her anatomy of the conflicting dynamics of

movement and electoral ambitions, and her clear-eyed analysis of the Democratic position following

Trump's victory, will serve as a useful starting point for many readers newly aware of the limitations of the Democratic Party in the immensity of the challenges ahead.

Crashing the party from the Bernie Sanders campaign to a progressive movement by Heather Gottney, out now from Verso Books.

This episode of The Dig is also brought to you by Jacobin Magazine,

which this podcast is produced in collaboration with. I've been a Jacobin reader and supporter

for years, and beyond helping this podcast get off the ground, they've also played a huge role

in bringing socialist ideas back into discussion in the United States and beyond.

You can subscribe to Jacobin at jacobinmag.com slash subscribe.

Subscribers get an absolutely gorgeous print publication in their mailboxes every couple months

and access to Jacobin's entire archive of over

4,000 articles.

...