Blueprints BONUS Episode - How Bernie Sanders Won The Burlington Mayoralty - USA 1981 - 1983

In 1981, at the same time as Ronald Reagan, an anti-tax, far right celebrity won the Presidency, socialist Bernie Sanders became the mayor of Burlington in the then conservative state of Vermont. The campaign around him stunned everyone, and won by just 10 votes. It was the start of a political revolution in Vermont, and the strategy for how they won and then governed would, against all the odds, win them a clear majority in the 1983 re-election. 

We spoke with staff writer at Jacobin and 1of200 host Branko Marcetic (@bmarchetich) whose epic long-read on the race is the basis for the episode

Branko’s book length article on this campaign for Jacobin

Some old news footage of Bernie

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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

Thanks to Daniel Hart for the backing music

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