Occupy the Party

When the Occupy protests in New York and dozens of other cities ended four years ago, the conventional wisdom was that they had failed. After all, no mass movement had sprouted up to turn a spotlighted media event into a sustained challenge to economic injustice. Rent by clashing identities and lacking a program for change, the occupiers scattered to new causes or took a long break from activism.

The Bernie Sanders campaign has hurled that judgment into the trash bin of recent history.