Robert Scheer on How the Bernie Sanders Movement Must Last Beyond the Election (Video)
Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer discusses the 2016 election and how the progressive movement can continue to incite political change. Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer discusses the 2016 election and how the progressive movement can continue to incite political change.In a new video on The Real News Network, Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer shares his views on the political movement that grew from the Bernie Sanders campaign. He explains that, despite Sanders’ political losses, the movement can still incite change — if it organizes successfully.
“The fact is we’ve had insensitivity on the part of the liberal governing class, the liberal elite, to the suffering of most Americans,” Scheer says. “And now we have a revolt.”
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