Elections

Bernie Sanders Once Compared Vermont Workers to Black ‘Slaves’

‘BAGGAGE’

As the leading member of a self-described “radical political party” in the 1970s, Bernie Sanders repeatedly compared Vermont workers to enslaved black people.

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