Those pro-Sanders street protests didn’t grab many headlines. Here’s why that might be a good sign for his supporters.
Those pro-Sanders street protests didn’t grab many headlines. Here’s why that might be a good sign for his supporters.
- July 31, 2016
- David Meyer, sociology, comments in The Washington Post July 31, 2016
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“One of the ironies is protest movements have more success in making inroads into the mainstream of both parties, which takes some of the steam out the protest in the street,” says David Meyer, a professor at the University of California, Irvine who teaches about social movements.
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