Resurrection of leftism and scents of revolution : how Bernie sanders' USA is swinging to Marxist ideals

Abstract EN

Though recently withdrawn from the 2020 US presidential race, Bernie Sanders has shaped the face of the new American left, within a decade.

Unfortunate candidate for the Democratic Party's inner caucuses (2016-2020), he left a striking impact on American youth and visible minorities.

Sanders capitalized on anti-conservative ideologies that emerged after the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (2008), Occupy Wall Street (2011) and all the upcoming protests that reject the economic and political establishment.

In this paper, we purport to analyze the origin of the popularity of Bernie Sanders in resurrecting a quasi-Trotskyite political and economic discourse – unthinkable in a country that debases Communism and depreciates its representatives.

Hence, through a crossed historical account of Bernie's ascension and the study of his public speeches, we will attempt to understand the scope of his impact and extrapolate the findings into prognostics on the future of leftism in the USA