Dan Froomkin

Elite political journalists are eager to kick Bernie Sanders on his way out the door

Dan Froomkin / March 16, 2020 / 8 min readSyndicated

Bernie Sanders has always made elite political journalists uncomfortable, on a deeply personal level. When Sanders rails against the corporate-friendly status quo, it rubs them the wrong way. Accepting the status quo as fundamentally reasonable is a prerequisite for succeeding in modern mainstream political journalism. Anything else makes you an “activist”.

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