America’s latest plot twist: Sanders as socialist Cinderella

The man who lost to the woman who lost to Donald Trump is now the one delivering all the previously unthinkables.

Bernie Sanders with supporters in Las Vegas, Nev., on Feb. 15. The unabashedly irascible, 78-year-old socialist who served in Congress for a quarter-century is Cinderella in the era of previously unimaginable political storyboards, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Flickr photograph by Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 26, 2020

The Cinderella story is a rare and wondrous thing in politics. It takes such an extraordinary alchemy of moment, character, luck, and skill that, in the normal, uncorrupted political environments of functioning democracies, the true Cinderella story is visible about as frequently as a blood supermoo...

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