ML-Implode News - Bernie Sanders may not win, but his revolution is just getting started

In their 2002 book, "The Emerging Democratic Majority," John Judis and Ruy Teixeira predicted that Democrats would enjoy an advantage in national elections because the major demographic groups that make up their coalition (young people, minorities, and single white women) were all growing as a percentage of the electorate, while the groups that Republicans rely on (married white people and seniors) weren't keeping pace.
This proved prescient. In 2008 and then 2012, Barack Obama successfully activated what the journalist Ron Brownstein dubbed the "coalition of the ascendant" to win the White House.
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Yet the rise of this new coalition has also had underappreciated policy implications. "The groups that dominate the party now are different than the ones that dominated 20 years ago -- they're further left," says Teixeira. Indeed, millennials, minorities, and single white women all favor a more activist and interventionist government, particularly in the economic realm, than do other Democrats. Consider:

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Bernie Sanders may not win, but his revolution is just getting started