Politico: If Sanders does indeed turn out to be the Democrats’ Goldwater, then who will be their Reagan?

Bernie is heir to the New Deal progressive tradition: organized labor, universal public benefits, public investment and limits on concentrated corporate power. I find the term ‘socialist’ needlessly alarming to the rouge section of the electorate.

Sanders echoes the much more broadly shared—though hardly equally available—prosperity of the postwar decades, particularly 1948 to 1973, when productivity and ordinary workers’ compensation rose together. After Reagan, the New Democrats and Bill Clinton argued that accepting neoliberal settlement was the price of remaining nationally competitive. That outlook has defined the Democratic Party’s governing center ever since. Now the party wants the working class back—often without surrendering its comfort with big business and wealthy donors. That queasiness you feel - an example would be the recent Jeffries meeting with Kushner - those rumbles in your gut are real.

Bernie remains apart. His movement and the DSA are not the same thing. But both understand the fundamental difference: Rebuild working-class power, not merely recapture working-class votes. The moderates will snitch Bernie’s rhetoric, lip service his policies. Weigh candidates' actions, not their words.