Sanders lays out his vision for America: finish what Franklin Roosevelt started

The 2020 presidential candidate, who has consistently ranked second in national polls, defended democratic socialism

Presidential 2020 candidate Bernie Sanders confronted critics of his leftwing politics in a formal speech on Wednesday that sought to explain and forcefully defend democratic socialism – the economic philosophy that has shaped his decades-long political career.

Sanders, speaking to a friendly audience at George Washington University in Washington DC, presented himself as the heir to a progressive tradition championed by Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr as he argued that a wholesale “political revolution” was the only antidote to the “tyranny of oligarchs, multinational corporations, Wall Street banks and billionaires”.

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