Sanderista
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Sanders + -ista. Blend of Sanders + Sandinista. Coined in reference to the Sandinistas.
Noun
[edit]Sanderista (plural Sanderistas)
- (US politics, colloquial) A supporter of Bernie Sanders or his political philosophy.
- Synonyms: Berner, Bernista
- Hyponyms: Bernie bro, Berniecrat
- 1983, WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Non-violent Action, volume 19, Workshop in Nonviolence Institute, page 38:
- 7/83 Space Wars; Micronesia vs. nukes; Green Party & Sanderistas; also Spring Books Pt. 2
- 1986, Places, volume 3, page 38:
- A special approach of the Sanderista coalition has been to mobilize this complex of popular groups into an independent political force.
- 2012, Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism, page 152:
- In other cases, groups fostered the creation of current organizations and movements, for example, PACT (tenants' rights) in Burlington, Vermont, laid the groundwork for the Sanderistas.
- 2015, Harry Jaffe, Why Bernie Sanders Matters[1]:
- Call it what you will—a Sanderista cult, a brand, a following—Vermonters responded to Sanders.
- 2015, Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin[2], page 223:
- During the war that continued for the rest of the 1980s, Burlington's Progressives identified strongly with the FSLN, to the point of earning for themselves the nickname "Sanderistas."