34. "Her problem is that she's obviously bought and paid for..." In response to In response to 33 Fri Feb-12-16 04:53 AM by Mansa Musa
...and has no instinct for economic populism, in a time when people are pissed off about the economy. That explains most of her campaign's floundering, IMO. But she will almost certainly still get the nomination, because of the rigged superdelegate system and her overwhelming corporate/Wall Street backing.
I agree with you that Sanders should have pointed out that the New Deal was fatally flawed by FDR's compromise with white supremacy re: redlining and Jim Crow in the South. But the Democrats have also moved so far to the right on economic policy since Mondale's defeat in '84 that Eisenhower looks radical. In that context, aspects of the New Deal SHOULD be defended--the same ones that Ella Baker, A. Philip Randolph, and Bayard Rustin supported. What Sanders needs to do is make a strong case that racial justice goes better with social democracy than Clinton's vapid neoliberalism.