That long list of scandals made Trump’s second White House win confounding to many progressives. But not Bernie Sanders: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” the independent, left-wing senator from Vermont wrote on Nov. 6.

The strategist who managed Bernie Sanders’s presidential race says the party needs vision and conviction “to restore a deeply damaged Democratic brand.”

Progressive strategist Faiz Shakir, who ran Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign in 2020, has announced a late bid to lead the Democratic National Committee. Citing a “lack of vision and conviction” on display within the Democratic agency as the chairmanship race takes shape,