“The US equivalent of the new UK Labor leaders is Bernie Sanders”
Nope. Sanders doesn’t hate Israel, doesn’t give money to holocaust deniers, doesn’t want the US to give up its nuclear weapons, doesn’t want to expand coal production, and is from all indications a mentsch (albeit a completely non-religious person).
I don’t think much of Sanders’ non-interventionist foreign policy (although Rand Paul is even worse). It isn’t necessary to break up all the banks if you would just regulate them the way Canada and Israel do. And I personally caught Sanders with a false statement regarding trade. So I’m not a huge Sanders supporter. But I do like the fact that in 43 years in public life he has never run a single negative ad. Unfortunately, you can probably only get away with that in a small state like Vermont.