Jesse Jackson’s Campaigns Offer Blueprint For Defeating American Extremism

Jesse Jackson’s Campaigns Offer Blueprint For Defeating US Extremism

Source: David Corio / Getty Over 40 years after his first presidential campaign and call for a Rainbow Coalition, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s transformative presidential campaigns offer a framework for sustaining opposition to extremist economic and political policies. His political challenge was as much about the presidency as it was about shifting culture and values.  Through his work and words, Jackson sought to build collective power at scale. A lo…

Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left

With his two unabashedly left-populist campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988, Jesse Jackson opened the door to Bernie Sanders’s presidential runs — and a reborn American socialist movement.A renewed American left grew in the wake of Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaign. And those two Sanders presidential campaigns owed a great deal to Jesse Jackson. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)The Reverend Jesse Jackson passed away this week at the age …

Jesse Jackson’s Campaigns Offer Blueprint For Defeating American Extremism

Source: David Corio / Getty Over 40 years after his first presidential campaign and call for a Rainbow Coalition, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s transformative presidential campaigns offer a framework for sustaining opposition to extremist economic and political policies. His political challenge was as much about the presidency as it was about shifting culture and values.  Through his work and words, Jackson sought to build collective power at scale. A lo…