WASHINGTON _ The 2018 electoral map is dotted with Democratic campaigns that closely resemble Bernie Sanders' own unabashedly liberal, anti-establishment presidential candidacy.
But it has markedly fewer candidates who actually supported the progressive champion in 2016.
All across the country this year, many of the progressive heroes of 2018 are running Sanders-style campaigns even though many of them didn't support Sanders' presidential bid. It's a sign of how the senator's brand of anti-establishment politics and muscular liberalism is now firmly in the mainstream of the Democratic Party _ even if many of his actual supporters from 2016 still struggle to run for higher office.
