How Bernie Sanders Saved the Democratic Party
He forced Democrats to realize they want to work out their problems from the inside, not the outside.
Headed in opposite directions.
Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images North AmericaWith his string of primary losses today to former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders has revitalized the institution that he most loves to hate: the Democratic Party. Sanders had hoped to overrun the party. Instead, he inspired resistance among older blacks, suburban white moderates, feminists, pragmatists, patriots — all those loosely affiliated voters whose priorities may vary but who share the paramount goal of removing Donald Trump from the White House.
“Voters are making tactical decisions about defeating Trump,” Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg told the Atlantic’s Ronald Brownstein last week. Greenberg called the late shift in the race to Biden a “once-in-a-century kind of primary.”