Meet the tech-savvy activists trying to take over the Democratic Party
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, several alums of the Bernie Sanders campaign came together with media entrepreneurs from The Young Turks to chart their path forward. Disappointed with the performance of a Democratic Party they felt had chosen a too-centrist position, they decided to seek out and promote candidates from the left using some of the distributed organizing tools that had helped the Sanders campaign punch above its weight.
The group, called Justice Democrats, advocates for policy positions such as Medicare for all, regulating Wall Street, ending “the failed war on drugs,” and bringing about election reform, according to their platform. Meanwhile the group proposes electing individuals to replace “corporate Democrats,”...