DES MOINES, Iowa—As soon as the doors opened for Bernie Sanders’s Iowa caucus concert with Bon Iver on Friday night, Hailey Oswald and Vinni Omolon, two 18-year-old friends from Waukee High School, scampered to the front of the stage, smiles pasted to their faces. As Cardi B played in the background, they told me they were both were excited to caucus for the first time, and especially for Bernie. “I’m ready to be an adult,” Vinni told me. He was wearing a Bernie campaign t-shirt he had bought at a rally for Bernie in Des Moines in 2016, when he was 14; the friends had found out about the concert through a post on Bernie’s Instagram account.“I have really strong opinions about what I believe,” Hailey said, her braces glinting. “The fact that people can’t go to the doctor because they don’t have the money for it.”
—people who are the future of the Democratic Party, many of whom were in attendance on Friday night, and who were ready to throw down for—as a sticker being handed out proclaimed—It’s a cliche at this point to say that Twitter isn’t the real world, but few in the audience cared about or had even heard of Bernie Bros or theor Joe Rogan.
For some that night, like the fan in a Black Flag-inspired Bernie campaign t-shirt who had driven all the way from Minneapolis with his girlfriend and who showed me a tattoo on his arm of a Bon Iver lyric in Justin Vernon’s handwriting , the performer was the main draw. But for most, Vernon’s unintelligible crooning was just an added perk. Bernie was the real celebrity. “I’m not a big Bon Iver fan,” 20-year-old Steven Vargas told me.
The next morning, I made my way to the home of Dartanyan Brown and Paula Egan, two local activists who have turned their house into a canvassing hub for the Sanders campaign. A young campaign staffer sat hunched in the corner of the living, typing steadily on his laptop, a box of hand warmers at his feet.
“Damn!” Dart said after the video played. “It’s really good.” Paula came into the living room, and showed me a photo of Bernie himself in their home on New Year’s Eve last year, speaking to a group of young volunteers. “Dartanyan and I got to walk about three blocks with Bernie. It was amazing,” Paula said. Over the past few weeks, people have trooped through their doors from states around the country to canvass for the campaign.
Both Dart and Paula are members of CCI, and had voted to endorse Sanders this time around. They were impressed by what they saw and heard through the endorsement process: they pointed out how Bernie was the only candidate who had agreed to join the group on a bus tour of factory farms. “I just know how consistent he’s been,” Paula said of Bernie. “He doesn’t pander.”
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