GERARD BAKER
the times
Democrats are clinging to their own Corbyn
Bernie Sanders shares many qualities with Labour’s leader and will surely go the same way in a showdown with Trump
If you thought that one of the principal lessons of Anglo-Saxon electoral politics in 2019 was that there wasn’t much of a future for a septuagenarian, far-left political figure with some unsavoury past connections, a polarising personality and a commitment to a barely credible fiscal programme, you might want to hold that thought as 2020 unfolds.
Jeremy Corbyn may have been derided by his critics as the Magic Grandpa of British politics and repudiated comprehensively by voters in last month’s election, but his ideological soulmate over here in the United States has begun this election year with true momentum.
Seventy-eight-year-old Bernie Sanders, the self-described socialist senator from Vermont, is riding high again in the race to be the Democratic candidate to take on Donald Trump… The Times.
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