I think the best description of Sanders is "the last New Dealer". This being said, Progressivism has a checkered past. The bleeding edge is a fickle hellcat, f

I think the best description of Sanders is "the last New Dealer". This being said, Progressivism has a checkered past. The bleeding edge is a fickle hellcat, full of bad normative assumptions. A devout New England Abolitionist would have thought nothing of beating the Irish in his employ severely. Stuff like that.