Senator Bernie Sanders needs to address the most fundamentally divisive vocabulary of all, namely the twin dualities of “left vs. right” and “liberal vs. conservative.”

Appeared in: Volume 11, Number 3 | Published on: October 12, 2015

David Green is the author of The Language of Politics in America: Shaping Political Consciousness From McKinley to Reagan (Cornell University Press, 1991), and a contributor to The American Interest since 2012. He has taught at Ohio State, Cornell and York University.