Yesterday, in a major address at George Washington University, Bernie Sanders outlined his vision of a democratic socialism for the twenty-first century.

Among his most expansive to date, the speech embraced a few themes the senator has been invoking for years: the urgent need for universal social programs like Medicare For All and liveable wages; the unchecked tyranny of corporate actors like Amazon and Disney; the growing divide in American society between ordinary people and an entrenched class of wealthy elites. Echoing these in an international context, Sanders also warned of the growing threat posed by an increasingly menacing authoritarian right melding corporatism and xenophobia with a disdain for civil liberties — a current that’s become all-too visible in the United States under Donald Trump.

Heavy on references to FDR and the New Deal, Sanders attempted a difficult balancing act: embracing and championing the socialist label in a country traditionally hostile to it while pitching socialist values in terms designed to be legible to the average person. To this end, he also invoked Martin Luther King Jr’s famous declaration that America has “socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.”