Vermont Conversation: How Sen. Bernie Sanders went from 'political loser' to progressive trailblazer

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1. Bernie's rise from "political loser to progressive trailblazer" brings to mind a quote by trade unionist Nicholas Klein,

from a 1918 address to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in Baltimore: "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." The phrase is often used to describe the evolution of new, radical ideas when challenging the status quo.

(Another version of this quote, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win," is commonly attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, but there's no evidence he ever said or wrote this specific phrase.)