Sanders Finds It Easier to Start Than Rein In a Revolution

  • Candidate’s pleas for Democratic unity ignored by some
  • Convention speakers fight to be heard over jeers and boos

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Bernie Sanders is learning that starting a revolution is easier than controlling it.

As the Democratic National Convention opened Monday in Philadelphia, a booing, jeering contingent of the Vermont senator’s backers was so insistent about never supporting presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton that Sanders himself couldn’t reel them in.