That consensus has remained essentially unchallenged for more than 40 years—until now. “Bernie Sanders’s success convinced a lot of Democratic politicians that a more strident anti-corporate-power message can be helpful,” says Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington. “When you add the anger of Sanders voters and the anger of other Democratic voters who are mad about Trump to the backlash to the [Atlantic Coast Pipeline], you have a lot of forces pushing against Dominion.”
Stephen J. Farnsworth, Ph.D.
Political Science professor, focusing on the mass media, the presidency and Virginia politics
