The BBC reports that Bernie Sanders has endorsed Hillary Clinton, saying „there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns and we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.“
I find this improbable. I’m reflecting on the 1936 Democratic Party Platform:
12 years of Republican surrender to the dictatorship of a privileged few have been supplanted by a Democratic leadership which has returned the people themselves to the places of authority,…
We have begun and shall continue the successful drive to rid our land of kidnappers and bandits. We shall continue to use the powers of government to end the activities of the malefactors of great wealth who defraud and exploit the people.…
Monopolies and the concentration of economic power, the creation of Republican rule and privilege, continue to be the master of the producer, the exploiter of the consumer, and the enemy of the independent operator. This is a problem challenging the unceasing effort of untrammeled public officials in every branch of the Government. We pledge vigorously and fearlessly to enforce the criminal and civil provisions of the existing anti-trust laws, and to the extent that their effectiveness has been weakened by new corporate devices or judicial construction, we propose by law to restore their efficacy in stamping out monopolistic practices and the concentration of economic power.
On the one hand, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton. William Jennings Bryan. Hillary Clinton.
