Bernie Sanders doesn’t make his personal story a cornerstone of his campaign, but in a rare interview about his immigrant roots, he made clear it deeply influenced his outlook.
NEW YORK — Bernie Sanders thinks of himself as a Vermonter, but he knows other people don’t necessarily see — or hear — him that way.
“I spent the first 18 years of my life in Brooklyn, I went to school in Brooklyn, I went to PS 197, went to James Madison High School, spent a year at Brooklyn College, so obviously Brooklyn is an important part of my life,” Sanders said. “My father learned English ... pretty well. He did not have an accent. My grandmother always had a very heavy accent,” he recounted.
In the conversation with Yahoo News, Sanders distanced himself just slightly from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and other progressives, who have called Trump’s immigration detention facilities “concentration camps” and argued there are parallels between the current moment and the rise of Adolf Hitler. Sanders has rejected the use of the term “concentration camps.” However, he said he does feel there’s a valid “comparison” between Trump’s America and Nazi Germany.
That speech was an exception. Before briefly discussing his youth, Sanders asked the audience to permit him “a few personal words.” Those moments are relatively rare. Sanders generally doesn’t delve into Brooklyn or his family’s immigration story. He describes this as part of his aversion to focusing on personality rather than policy.
“I was very disappointed when I was a young man when the Dodgers left Brooklyn. I learned something about politics from that, as a matter of fact. What the power of money is about,” he said. “The Brooklyn Dodgers were a very unifying force in Brooklyn. They were an institution. And whatever makes them more money, a guy disrupted all that, moved them out to California.”
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