Whether or not he won the nomination, Sanders certainly moved the Overton Window of government policy discussion back to the left, raising issues — and garnering enthusiastic support for them — that will reverberate through American politics (especially in the Democratic Party) for at least a generation.
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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the da
