Bernie Sanders' America
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 4 February 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss whether the Democratic Party is experiencing an identity crisis.
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| 1:11.6 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:17.3 | It's Thursday, February 3rd. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:22.9 | This hasn't been exactly a feel-good campaign. Then came this from Bernie Sanders. |
| 1:53.0 | John McAll right. John Cassidy and Ryan Liza join me to explain how a 74-year-old white guy from Brooklyn, with the help of a Simon and Garfunkel anthem from 1968 has won the passions of so many of the country's youngest voters. |
| 2:05.9 | Also, whether the Democratic Party, like the Republicans, is having an identity crisis. |
| 2:07.8 | Ryan, what about that, Ed? |
| 2:19.0 | Well, it sums up at least part of the Sanders campaign, which is that it taps into a lot more idealism and makes you feel good in a way that Hillary Clinton's campaign doesn't, at least for a lot of voters, it seems. But it can be sometimes frustratingly |
| 2:24.8 | light on specifics, although I think Sanders has gotten a little bit better and flushing out his |
| 2:29.6 | ideas. You know, that ad, it makes you feel good. It doesn't tell you anything about where |
| 2:33.8 | he wants the country to go. |
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