So nobody can write for The Guardian without playing the race or sex cards, then?

Thomas Piketty, white guy and French economist, on the rise of Bernie Sanders: the US enters a new political era

Because he is facing the Clinton machine, as well as the conservatism of mainstream media, Sanders might not win the race. 

But it has now been demonstrated that another Sanders – possibly younger and less white – could one day soon win the US presidential elections and change the face of the country.

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Meanwhile, the Republican party sinks into a hyper-nationalist, anti-immigrant and anti-Islam discourse (even though Islam isn’t a great religious force in the country), and a limitless glorification of the fortune amassed by rich white people.