Abstract:
Morning in America in the primary season begins with Morning Joe, a political talk show on MSNBC. In early April they had Bernie Sanders on, and he announced that in a few weeks he would be meeting with the Pope. Whether that was Bernie’s initiative or Pope Francis’ would later be a matter of discussion, but it was a measure of the degree to which the US election campaign has become a global championing of something rather more than would otherwise be the case. Since he announced his candidacy in 2015, Sanders has become the bearer of global hope, of the possibility of epochal change at the heart of the empire – something that is not simply a reckoning with its imperial role, as occurred, partially, in the Carter years, but one that would challenge the myths the United States has run on for decades, and which have sustained it into the sort of deep fantasy that rewards the anti-rationality candidate, Donald Trump.
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