“You Haven’t Done Nothin’”: Bernie Sanders’s Disingenuous Transformation into a Civil Rights Champion

Jeremy Fassler
6 min readMar 5, 2019
Bernie Sanders Getting Arrested Protesting Civil Rights, 1963

“But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you were gonna change right from wrong
’Cause if you really want to hear our views,
You haven’t done nothin.’”
- Stevie Wonder, “You Haven’t Done Nothin’”

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.