Zero Hedge — Bernie Sanders Says FBI Probe Is "Pathetic" Attempt At Political Retribution

Echoing remarks made to a local reporter in May – before the existence of a federal investigation was known to the public – Senators launched into a diatribe about how the investigation is nothing more than a political attack perpetrated by Republicans.
“My wife is about the most honest person I know. When she came to that college it was failing financially and academically when she left it, it was in the best shape it’d ever been. Five years later, coincidentally no doubt, when I am a candidate for president of United States Donald Trump’s campaign manager – vice chairman of the Republican party of Vermont – launched this investigation. 

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Bernie Sanders Says FBI Probe Is "Pathetic" Attempt At Political Retribution
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Daniel Little — Strategies for resisting right-wing populism

Neoliberalism versus populist nationalism or social democracy. Neoliberalism is generating a reaction, as dialectics would predict. The dominant reaction presently is populist nationalism tending toward authoritarianism on the right of the political spectrum. The left is still stuck with the globalist (corporatist) neoliberalism adopted by Third Way politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in reaction to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher's conservatism.

What would it take for the parties of the left to embrace the pro-working class [social democratic] policies described here? And is the underlying suspicion voiced by Rothstein above actually correct: that the Democratic Party is so beholden to large corporate interests that it is incapable of adopting these kinds of platforms?

Understanding Society

Strategies for resisting right-wing populism

Daniel Little | Chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Professor of Philosophy at UM-Dearborn and Professor of Sociology at UM-Ann Arbor

See also

Longish.

Noahpinion
The siren song of homogeneity

Noah Smith