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What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like

It’s clear that a radical president can shift a party’s center of gravity: Republican public opinion- on immigration, Russia, the FBI -has rapidly moved to align with Trump’s views, and Republican politicians have largely done the same. A Sanders presidency would polarize the national debate in a similar way, pressuring Democratic legislators to side with their leader over the inevitably fanatical Republican opposition.