Grist: "Meet the Presidential Candidate Who Makes Bernie Sanders Look Conservative"

The Grist did a profile on Jill Stein that's reproduced on her campaign website. The whole thing is worth a read, but this jumped out at me:

Stein, a Massachusetts doctor, is seeking the Green Party’s nomination for president, which will be decided at the party’s convention in August. She won that nomination in 2012, and then went on to get arrested three times during that campaign: at a bank sit-in in Philadelphia, when she tried to get into a presidential debate on Long Island, and when she tried to deliver supplies to activists fighting the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. Despite her arrest record -- and not being invited to a single general election debate -- Stein won nearly half a million votes, making her the most successful female presidential candidate in American history.

It’s a record that may not hold for long.

Stein believes it’s clear who will win the Democratic primary -- and it’s not the socialist. “The Democratic Party has a very clear track record of sabotaging rebels,” Stein says. “Go back to Jesse Jackson, who had won 11 major primaries in 1988, and was basically taken out by a fear campaign started by the Democratic Party.”

I was a brand-new Democratic voter when Jackson ran in 1988. I remember well the feeling that a real revolution in the party was at hand - and the current crop of twentysomething Sandernistas probably ought to pay attention to the trajectory of that '88 Jackson campaign.