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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Bernie would have won. It's an impossible to prove, but no doubt quite plausible, counterfactual.

More than that, it's a rallying cry, and also an inspired bit of trolling. But in the UK, Bernie did sort of win last week. The Labor Party,

under left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn, came far from behind and stripped Tory Prime Minister

Theresa May of her majority, forcing her to try to form an alliance with the Democratic Unionist Party,

a group of Protestant fundamentalists from Northern Ireland.

Labor did not win power, but it came closer to doing so than it has in quite a long while.

Labor did so after the very serious people in British punditocracy had confidently predicted

that Corbyn would lead labor into left-wing oblivion, and after

Blairite neoliberals in the parliamentary labor party had spent months waging guerrilla warfare

against the party's left-wing leadership. There is a lot to unpack here, but I'm going to

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