Near the end of last week's "unity" event with Hillary Clinton, he declared that "the choice in this election is not between left or right, it's not between liberal or conservative, it's between the past and the future".
Just as, in this election year, candidates from left-leaning parties like Mr. Hollande and President Obama will be inveighing against big, rich banks.
In this election, the center and the left tried various tricks to gain an edge — for instance, by filling their ranks with former journalists and TV celebrities.
You don't hear that.Bagehot: The ascendant forces in this election are mostly on the left, in Scotland, even under this Labour party leader, and of course the Greens.
"You can read into this election a failure of the left in Britain to come up with a convincing response to the events of 2008 and the ensuing economic crisis," Travers said.
"To whoever thinks San Francisco is loopy and left-wing, this election basically said, 'No, it's really not,' " said David Latterman, associate director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco.
What just happened in this election is that the culturally left-behind hit back.
Prognoses that see this election as the "sunset for the left" are premature.
"I am convinced that I will be able to persuade the left camp that this election is not a video game".
It is important to note that even in this election cycle, the South's Christian left has not been silent.
