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Bernie Sanders is not running for president

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Carl Beijer
May 04, 2015
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A lot of left-criticism of Bernie Sanders is beginning with an odd but telling assumption: that he is running for president. This is only colloquially true. At this stage in the process, when we say that Sanders is running for president, that’s just rhetorical shorthand for what is actually happening: he’s running for the Democratic nomination. Then and…

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