Over 13,000 people turned out for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign kickoff rally at Brooklyn College in Flatbush on Saturday, and despite the cold weather and lingering snow, it was clear the crowd was feeling the Bern.
Bernie’s 45-minute speech was a rebuke of the current circus of presidential affairs and a view to what could be the most progressive White House since Jimmy Carter come 2020, when campaign issues such as Medicare for all, the end of mass incarceration, and a Green New Deal could put millions of Americans back to work modernizing the country’s infrastructure.
After his speech, Sanders and his wife did what every other Brooklynite might do, they took a stroll through Prospect Park.