This is Jackabin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.

This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.

Bernie Sanders jumped into the 2020 Democratic Party presidential race this year. W important candidate in the race and not just because of the money.

His 2016 run within the Democratic Party but against its politics has changed the political

conversation, brought tens of thousands into the work of politics,

elected a new cohort of left Democrats to Congress,

and put the party on notice

such that all candidates are now at least proclaiming support

for Medicare for all, striking teachers and a Green New

Deal.

As Kate Arunoff, our guest puts it in The Guardian, the types of ideas left off in the 2016

primary as magical unicorns are now firmly in the party's

mainstream even as they make its top brass sweat. We ask Kate Arinoff contributing

writer at the Intercept and Jacobin to unpack that, when

Jacobin Radio.

I'm Sizzy Weizmann and this is Jacobin Radio.

Very pleased to have Kate Arinoff with me for the first time.

She is a fellow at the Type Media Center, a contributing writer at The Intercept and

Jacobin.

She also writes, for The Guardian in these times the nation all the good places and she's studying economics at John J College in New York and tweets at Kate Arinoff that's K-A-T-E-A-R-O-F.

Her recent articles include on February 19th in the Guardian,

we're going to be discussing a lot.

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