Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont at a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on March 21, 2024.

The gap between haves and have-nots is a permanent feature of our world. Some of the time, it is manageable by the haves. Sometimes not. When it isn’t, revolution is in the air.

We don’t have a history of revolution in our county, but there was a time, not so very long ago, that a soft one might have occurred. The year was 2016. Bernie Sanders, running for president as a lifelong socialist and independent senator from Vermont, was offering a simple choice. Whose side are you on — that of the billionaires, or the working people?

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Sanders was on to something big. Transformative! That was the........

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