Over the course of two presidential campaigns, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, seemed to sell out to the Democratic Party to capture the party’s nomination. In 2024, however, Sanders might be returning to his heterodox ways by signaling his approval of some of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans.
The independent socialist senator became a household name when he sought the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2016. Although he lost to Hillary Clinton, he won the progressive wing of the Democratic Party a seat at the table. To forward his progressive causes as a Democratic candidate, however, he had to change some of his once-nonnegotiable positions.
For example, prior to running for president in 2016, Sanders called open borders a “Koch brothers proposal,” referring to the wealthy Koch brothers, David and Charles, who funded a number…
