Instead Sanders turns his sights on corporate greed and the influence of money in politics. There is relatively little mention of the President-Elect here and no protracted post-mortem.

It seems that Sanders didn’t anticipate a Trump victory. Part memoir, part campaign diary and part political manifesto, it was published a week after the presidential election. Regardless, as Sanders has said, the fight goes on and Our Revolution is a first step in that direction.

The campaign may be over, but the struggle goes on.Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders (Profile, £14.99)Ĭould Bernie Sanders have beaten Donald Trump? That question will remain one of the great “what ifs” of American politics. For him, the political revolution has just started. And for the millions looking to continue the political revolution, he outlines a progressive economic, environmental, racial, and social justice agenda that will create jobs, raise wages, protect the environment, and provide health care for all-and ultimately transform our country and our world for the better. In Our Revolution, Sanders shares his personal experiences from the campaign trail, recounting the details of his historic primary fight and the people who made it possible. Most important, he showed that the American people were prepared to take on the greed and irresponsibility of corporate America and the 1 percent. He had received more than 13 million votes in primaries and caucuses throughout the country, won twenty-two states, and more than 1.4 million people had attended his public meetings. Bernie had run one of the most consequential campaigns in the modern history of the country. His campaign had no money, no political organization, and it was taking on the entire Democratic Party establishment.īy the time Sanders’s campaign came to a close, however, it was clear that the pundits had gotten it wrong. After all, he was just an Independent senator from a small state with little name recognition. When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a “fringe” campaign, something not to be taken seriously.