Left Out

I want to thank Thomas Frank for his insightful article on the media’s treatment of Bernie Sanders [“Swat Team,” Essay, November]. Like many Americans, I initially dismissed Bernie’s candidacy because I’d never heard of him, but as time went on I found that I agreed with almost every one of his positions. It turns out that a lot of voters support single-payer health care, slowing down globalization, and an end to corporate welfare — and not all of us are Democrats. That Bernie’s popularity crossed party lines made him a much better bet than Hillary Clinton to defeat Trump,…