Analysis: Bernie Sanders is now a millionaire. Can he still speak for working-class Americans?
By Eugene Scott Eugene Scott Reporter covering identity politics for The Fix Email Bio Follow April 15 at 9:00 AM Sen. Bernie Sanders is running for president as an advocate for working-class Americans. But in a recent New York Times interview, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist revealed that he’s now one of the “haves.”
These stories have sparked a flurry of think pieces, along with some Internet outrage that say the people’s candidate isn’t really one of the people. Think Progress, a liberal website, called Sanders’s wealth “very off-brand and embarrassing.” Sanders “obscures his wealth to relate to the 99 percent,” the outlet wrote. Bloomberg News’s editorial page congratulated Sanders “on being rich” and asked whether he would now modulate his proposals.
It’s unlikely, though, that Sanders’s relatively new wealth will reshape his message or impact his supporters’ perception. Even before his most recent book, Sanders was comfortably in the upper middle class. He and his wife reported an annual income of more than $200,000 on a jointly filed 2015 tax return, which puts them in the top 5 percent of U.S. income earners.
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