Bernie’s Bro Tells Jacobin: It’s Not About Bernie Bros
Larry Sanders told Jacobin how his brother began a transformative movement — and why unlike him, its members aren’t “Bernie Bros.”
Larry Sanders, the older brother of US candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders, speaks to reporters during the Democrats Abroad global convention in Berlin on May 12, 2016. (John Macdougall / AFP via Getty Images)
Bernie Sanders’s older brother Larry is an activist, too. Committed to the NHS, he’s actually the current health spokesperson for the Green Party of England and Wales. He’s lived in Britain since the late 1960s, as a social worker with past stints teaching at the University of West London and Oxford University’s department of social administration. But right now, his attentions are again turned back to the United States.
As primary season gets underway, Larry Sanders has been hitting the campaign trail with Bernie’s 2020 Abroad Campaign, with meetings scheduled in London, Paris, Oxford, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews. Jacobin’s Cole Stangler caught up with him in the French capital, where they chatted about the campaign, their political influences growing up in Brooklyn, and why Bernie’s brother doesn’t believe in “Bernie bros.”
Cole Stangler
So, we’re sitting here a few days after the Iowa Caucus . . .
Larry Sanders
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