After Bernie Sanders’s successive failures to win the presidential nomination, some progressives want to abandon the Democratic Party altogether. Liam Glen writes on why institutional change is easier from within an existing party than a new one.


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After Bernie Sanders’s successive failures to win the presidential nomination, some progressives want to abandon the Democratic Party altogether. Liam Glen writes on why institutional change is easier from within an existing party than a new one.