1. People are starting to wake up to the fact that Bernie Sanders is now one of the most powerful political figures in America. Here's Politico. 
2. And here's the LA Times: Bernie Sanders, Power Broker.
3. Bernie the Power Broker cuts against two nominally opposed positions. There's the Hillary Clinton position that Bernie is just a whiny outsider that no one likes (in fact he's an effective parliamentarian) & the Sorelian left view that "politics is over" after 2020.
4. There are limits to Bernie's power. The Biden White House has been much more responsive to his pressure on domestic policy than on foreign policy. But there's no sign that Bernie is slowing down or relenting on that front either.
5. Bernie is 79 and if we're lucky he has another decade or more of doing what he's done for 40 years: pushing the Democrats to the left. No one has better at this since the great days of Robert Wagner. thenation.com/article/politi…
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