How Bernie 2020 could lead to a brokered convention

Super delegates could even hand him the Democratic nomination

Bernie Sanders.
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In 2016, Bernie Sanders ran a bootstrapped campaign on small-dollar donations and a vision of a political revolution to transform the country in a manner not seen since the 1930s. And he did change the Democratic Party dramatically, not only pushing the party to the left but powering an overhaul of the rules that dethroned the traditional party power brokers who, he felt, put their thumbs on the scales for Hillary Clinton.

So why could his 2020 campaign put those same brokers back in the saddle?

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Noah Millman

Noah Millman is a screenwriter and filmmaker, a political columnist and a critic. From 2012 through 2017 he was a senior editor and featured blogger at The American Conservative. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Politico, USA Today, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, Modern Age, First Things, and the Jewish Review of Books, among other publications. Noah lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.