Bernie Sanders: Perbedaan antara revisi

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'''Bernard<!--Please see: [[WP:QUOTENAME]] before placing "Bernie" here--> Sanders''' (lahir 8{{nbsp}}September 1941) adalah politikus [[Amerika Serikat]] yang menjabat sebagai [[Senator Amerika Serikat]] [[senioritas di Senat Amerika Serikat|junior]] mewakili [[Vermont]] sejak tahun 2007. Sebagai [[distrik kongres tunggal Vermont|wakil tunggal Vermont]] sejak 1991 hingga 2007, ia menjadi [[politikus independen]] dengan masa jabatan terlama sepanjang sejarah kongres Amerika Serikat. Ia juga anggota [[kaukus kongres|kaukus]] [[Partai Demokrat (Amerika Serikat)|Partai Demokrat]]. Sanders [[kampanye presiden Bernie Sanders 2016|maju sebagai calon presiden]] pada tahun 2016, tetapi [[Konvensi Nasional Demokrat 2016|tidak dicalonkan partai]]. Ia [[kampanye presiden Bernie Sanders 2020|maju lagi]] untuk pemilihan presiden tahun 2020.

Sanders lahir dan besar di [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], dari keluarga pekerja [[Yahudi Amerika|Yahudi]]. Ia sempat kuliah di [[Brooklyn College]], kemudian pindah ke [[Universitas Chicago]] dan lulus tahun 1964. Saat masih mahasiswa, ia aktif sebagai koordinator unjuk rasa [[Congress of Racial Equality]] dan [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] pada masa-masa perjuangan [[Gerakan Hak-Hak Sipil Afrika-Amerika (1955-1968)|gerakan hak sipil]] Amerika Serikat. Setelah menetap di Vermont tahun 1968, Sanders terjun ke politik dan beberapa kali mencalonkan diri lewat [[partai ketiga (Amerika Serikat)|partai ketiga]] pada awal hingga pertengahan 1970-an, tetapi selalu kalah. Sanders maju secara independen dan [[pemilihan umum wali kota Burlington 1981|terpilih]] sebagai [[daftar wali kota Burlington, Vermont|wali kota Burlington]] pada tahun 1981 dengan selisih sepuluh suara. Ia terpilih lagi sebanyak tiga kali. Ia menang pemilu legislatif [[Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat A.S.Amerika Serikat]] pada tahun [[pemilihan umum Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Amerika Serikat 1990 di Vermont|1990]] mewakili dapil tunggal Vermont; ia salah satu anggota pendiri [[Kaukus Progresif Kongres]]. Sanders menjabat sebagai anggota DPR selama 16 tahun, lalu [[pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat di Vermont 2006|terpilih sebagai anggota Senat]] tahun 2006. Ia kembali terpilih sebagai senator pada tahun [[pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat di Vermont 2012|2012]] dan [[pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat di Vermont 2018|2018]].

Pada April 2015, Sanders menyatakan maju sebagai calon presiden Amerika Serikat lewat [[Konvensi Nasional Demokrat 2016|Konvensi Partai Demokrat]]. Meski peluang menangnya kecil, ia memenangi 23 [[pemilihan pendahuluan calon presiden Partai Demokrat|pemilihan pendahuluan dan kaukus]] serta 43% suara delegasi partai (55% sisanya dimenangi [[Hillary Clinton]]). Kampanye Sanders dikenal karena antusiasme pendukungnya, tidak bergantung kepada sumbangan perusahaan, industri keuangan, maupun [[Super PAC|komite politik independen]]. Pada Juli 2016, ia mendukung Clinton dalam [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016|kampanye pencapresannya]] melawan [[Donald Trump]] dari [[Partai Republik (Amerika Serikat)|Partai Republik]]. Pada Februari 2019, Sanders mengumumkan [[kampanye calon presiden Bernie Sanders 2020|maju lagi]] sebagai calon presiden dan memperebutkan pencalonan resmi partai bersama [[calon presiden Partai Demokrat 2020|belasan calon lainnya]]. Ia jugamengakhiri mendorongkampanye pendukungnyapencapresannya untukpada terus8 menggaungkanApril "revolusi2020.<ref politik"name=Ember-200408>{{cite yangnews dimulainya| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html | title=Bernie Sanders Is Dropping Out of 2020 Democratic Race for Presiden | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=April 8, 2020 | accessdate=April 8, 2020 | first=Sydney | last=Ember}}</ref>

</ref> Bapaknya, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders (1904–1962),<ref name=fndr1>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-1-the-impression-t9e1xe/ |work=[[Finding Your Roots]] |date=October 3, 2017 |title=Season 4, Episode 1: The Impression }}</ref> lahir di [[Słopnice]], [[Kerajaan Galisia dan Lodomeria|Galisia]], [[Austria-HongariaHungaria]] (sekarang bagian dari Polandia),<ref name="jtaancestraltown">{{cite news |title=Bernie Sanders' ancestral town in Poland kvells over his Iowa performance |url=https://www.jta.org/2016/02/02/news-opinion/united-states/bernie-sanders-ancestral-town-in-poland-kvells-over-his-iowa-performance |accessdate=February 3, 2016 |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=February 2, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Geni.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.geni.com/people/Eli-Sanders/6000000027756093071 |title=Eli Sanders |publisher=[[Geni.com]] |accessdate=January 23, 2016}}</ref> dari keluarga suku Yahudi. Pada tahun 1921, Elias pindah ke Amerika Serikat dan bekerja sebagai penjual cat.<ref name="jtaancestraltown"/><ref name="immigrationrecord">New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957 immigration record: Eliasz Gitman, sailing from Antwerp, mother Jetti Gutman, citizenship in 1927 as Elias Sanders.</ref><ref name=Chana>{{cite news |last1=Chana |first1=Jas |title=Straight Outta Brooklyn, by Way of Vermont: The Bernie Sanders Story |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/192931/bernie-sanders-story |accessdate=January 20, 2016 |work=[[Tablet (magazine)|Tablet]] |date=August 20, 2015|quote=Soltys told them that at the time the Nazis invaded Poland, Romek was the leader of Slopnice's Jewish community. "Which of course," Larry said, "meant he was one of the first to be killed."}}</ref> Ibunya, Dorothy Sanders ({{née|Glassberg}}, 1912–1960), lahir di New York City<ref name=gaudiano>{{cite web|last=Gaudiano |first=Nicole |date=April 28, 2015 |title=OnPolitics: 6 things to know about Bernie Sanders |website=USA Today |url=http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/04/28/6-things-to-know-about-bernie-sanders/ |accessdate=July 19, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150727170730/http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/04/28/6-things-to-know-about-bernie-sanders/ |archivedate=July 27, 2015}}</ref><ref name=NYTSocSen/> dari pasangan imigran Yahudi Polandia dan Rusia.<ref name="Geni.com4">{{cite web |url=http://www.geni.com/people/Bessie-Glassberg/6000000003916154223 |title=Bessie Glassberg (Goldberg) |publisher=[[Geni.com]] |accessdate=January 27, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Geni.com3">{{cite web |url=http://www.geni.com/people/Benjamin/6000000027757230396 |title=Benjamin Glassberg |publisher=[[Geni.com]] |accessdate=January 27, 2016 |quote=Birthplace: [[Radzyn Podlaski]], [[Radzyń Podlaski County]], [[Lublin Voivodeship]], Poland}}</ref>

Sanders mengenang masa mudanya di Chicago sebagai "masa-masa penuh gejolak intelektual yang cukup berpengaruh dalam [hidupnya]".<ref name=chicago>{{cite magazine|url=https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/bernie-sanders-chicago-speech-university-activism-core-ypsl |title=What Chicago Taught Bernie |last=Kampf-Lassin |first=Miles |date=March 3, 2019 |magazine=[[Jacobin (majalah)|Jacobin]]|access-date=March 4, 2019}}</ref> Di sana, ia bergabung dengan [[Young People's Socialist League (1907)|Liga Sosialis Pemuda]] (sayap [[Partai Sosialis Amerika]])<ref name=Politico>{{cite web |last=Kruse |first=Michael |date=July 9, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Has a Secret: Vermont, his son and the hungry early years that made him the surging socialist he is today |website=[[Politico]] |quote=After he graduated from James Madison High School in 1959, he went to Brooklyn College for a year before transferring to the University of Chicago, where he joined the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Peace Union, and the Young People's Socialist League. |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927_full.html |accessdate=July 18, 2015 |archive-date=2020-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502161956/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927_full.html |dead-url=yes }}</ref> dan aktif di [[Gerakan Hak Sipil]] sebagai anggota [[Congress of Racial Equality|Kongres Kesetaraan Ras]] (CORE) dan [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee|Komite Koordinator Antikekerasan Mahasiswa]] (SNCC).<ref name=kelly2015>{{cite news |last=Kelly |first=Amita |date=April 29, 2015 |title=5 Things You Should Know About Bernie Sanders |website=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/29/399818581/5-things-you-should-know-about-bernie-sanders |accessdate=July 19, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Nichols">{{cite magazine |last=Nichols |first=John |authorlink=John Nichols (journalist) |date=July 6, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Speaks |magazine=[[The Nation]] |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-speaks/ |accessdate=July 19, 2015 |archive-date=2015-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717115149/http://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-speaks/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Di bawah kepemimpinannya, cabang CORE dan SNCC di Universitas Chicago disatukan.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/bernie-sanders-core-university-chicago|title=Here's What Bernie Sanders Actually Did in the Civil Rights Movement |magazine=[[Mother Jones (majalah)|Mother Jones]] |date=February 11, 2016 |accessdate=February 11, 2016|last=Murphy|first=Tim}}</ref> Pada Januari 1962, ia ikut berunjuk rasa di gedung rektorat [[Universitas Chicago]] untuk memprotes [[segregasi asrama di Amerika Serikat|kebijakan segregasi asrama kampus]] yang diusulkan rektor [[George Wells Beadle]]. Sanders berkata, "Kami tidak sanggup membiarkan mahasiswa Negro dan kulit putih hidup terpisah di asrama milik universitas." Ia bersama 32 mahasiswa lain masuk gedung dan berkemah di depan kantor rektor.<ref name=Frizell/><ref>{{cite news |last=Perlstein |first=Rick |date=January 2015 |title=A political education |magazine=The University of Chicago Magazine |url=https://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/political-education |accessdate=September 10, 2015}}</ref> Setelah didemo selama beberapa minggu, Beadle dan para petinggi universitas membentuk panitia untuk menyelidiki diskriminasi ras di kampus.<ref name="Craven2015">{{cite news|last=Craven |first=Jasper |date=August 26, 2015 |title=Can Sanders' civil rights experience at U.&nbsp;of&nbsp;C. translate on campaign trail? |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-bernie-sanders-university-of-chicago-met-20150826-story.html |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108182818/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-bernie-sanders-university-of-chicago-met-20150826-story.html |url-status=live |issn=1085-6706}}</ref> Usai diprotes tanpa henti, Universitas Chicago secara resmi menghapus kebijakan segregasi ras di asrama kampus mulai musim panas 1963.<ref name=chicago /> Dalam wawancara tahun 2016, [[Joan Mahoney]], anggota CORE cabang Universitas Chicago dan sesama pendemo di dalam gedung, menggambarkan Sanders sebagai "orang yang rapi, anak Yahudi yang baik dari Brooklyn, tapi dia tidak begitu berkarisma. Salah satu kelebihannya adalah dia bisa bekerja sama dengan banyak orang, termasuk orang-orang yang tidak seprinsip dengannya".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/16/bernie-sanders-civil-rights-protest-chicago-1962-photography |title='He wasn't terribly charismatic': Bernie Sanders leads a civil rights protest in 1962 |last1=Booth |first1=Hannah |date=September 16, 2016 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=September 16, 2016}}</ref> Sanders pernah seharian memasang poster-poster yang memprotes [[keganasan polisi]], lalu sadar kalau polisi Chicago sudah membuntutinya dan mencabut semuanya.<ref name=Frizell/>

Tahun 1963, Sanders ikut [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]] dan menyimak pidato "[[I Have a Dream]]" oleh [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]].<ref name=kelly2015/><ref name =Frizell>{{cite news |last=Frizell |first=Sam |url=https://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/ |title=The Radical Education of Bernie Sanders |work=[[Time (majalah)|Time]] |date=May 26, 2015 }}</ref><ref name=release>{{cite web |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |title=News August 25 |website=Senate.gov |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/082513 |date=August 25, 2013 |accessdate=June 17, 2015 |archive-date=2020-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206110910/https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/082513 |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Pada tahun yang sama, ia didenda $25 ({{Inflation|US|25|1963|fmt=eq}}) karena mengelak dari penangkapan saat berunjuk rasa di [[Englewood, Chicago|Englewood]] menenetang [[segregasi ras di Amerika Serikat|segregasi]] sekolah negeri Chicago.<ref name=chicago /><ref name="Skiba">{{cite news |last=Skiba|first=Katherine|date=February 22, 2016|title=Arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from Tribune archives |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-bernie-sanders-1963-chicago-arrest-20160219-story.html |access-date=May 28, 2018|archive-date=2016-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227125207/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-bernie-sanders-1963-chicago-arrest-20160219-story.html|dead-url=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Tim |date=August 26, 2015 |title=Read 21-Year-Old Bernie Sanders' Manifesto on Sexual Freedom |work=[[Mother Jones (majalah)|Mother Jones]] |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/bernie-sanders-university-of-chicago-free-love |accessdate=September 10, 2015}}</ref>

Dalam kampanye pencalonan kembali Sanders tahun [[pemilihan umum Senat Amerika Serikat 2018 di Vermont|2018]], ia "pulang" ke Stannard untuk bertemu pemilih dan calon lainnya tanggal 3 November, tiga hari menjelang pemilu.<ref>{{Cite tweet |user=BernieSanders |number=1058922975737593856 |accessdate=December 17, 2019 |title=I moved to Stannard when I first came to Vermont. I've visited 13 states in the last 3 weeks but coming home to Stannard was very special to me. pic.twitter.com/muk1Ps4mzh|first=Bernie|last=Sanders|date=November 3, 2018}}</ref> Ia bercerita tentang pengalaman hidupnya di kota itu. Bekas rumahnya berjarang kurang lebih 1 &nbsp;km dari tempat acara Sanders.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heartofvt.com/stannard/|title=Stannard, Vermont - Hardwick Vermont Chamber of Commerce, the heart of Vermont, located in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont|work=Heart of Vermont Chamber of Commerce |accessdate=December 20, 2019}}</ref>

Kampanye tahun 1976 adalah puncak pengaruh Liberty Union. Sanders mengumpulkan 11.000 suara untuk gubernur dan partai. Pemilihan letnanwakil gubernur dan [[sekretaris negara bagian]] pun terpaksa diputuskan oleh DPRD karena total suaranya tidak memungkinkan calon Republik atau Demokrat meraup suara mayoritas.<ref name = Guma/> Kampanye tersebut menguras anggaran dan tenaga Liberty Union. Pada Oktober 1977, tidak sampai setahun usai berakhirnya kampanye 19766, Sanders dan calon jaksa umum dari Liberty Union, Nancy Kaufman, menyatakan mundur dari partai.<ref name = Guma/>

Sanders terpilih lagi sebanyak tiga kali mengalahkan calon dari Partai Demokrat maupun Republik. Ia memperoleh 53% suara tahun 1983 dan 55% tahun 1985.<ref name="latimes">{{cite news |first=Charles |last=Hillinger |title=Two Politicians Who Broke Mold in Vermont |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-04-28-vw-21595-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=April 28, 1985 |accessdate=November 2, 2015}}</ref> Dalam pencalonan terakhirnya tahun 1987, Sanders mengalahkan Paul Lafayette, calon Demokrat yang didukung oleh kedua partai.<ref>{{cite news |date=March 4, 1987 |title=Re-election easy for Socialist mayor |newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review|Spokane Chronicle]] |publisher=[[Cowles Company]]|location=Burlington, Vermont |page=A6 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PAwTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=efoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4864,620344}}</ref> Tahun 1986, ia kalah dalam pemilihan gubernur Vermont melawan petahana [[Madeleine Kunin]] (D). Sebagai calon independen, Sanders menempati posisi ketiga dengan perolehan suara 14%, sedangkan Kunin menang dengan 47% suara, diikuti LetnanWakil Gubernur [[Peter P. Smith]] (R) dengan 38% suara.

Semasa menjabat wali kota, Sanders menjuluki dirinya [[sosialis]] dan media massa juga menyebutnya demikian.<ref name="Banks">{{cite news |last=Banks |first=Russell |authorlink=Russell Banks |date=October 5, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders, the Socialist Mayor |work=[[The Atlantic]] |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/bernie-sanders-mayor/407413/ |accessdate=January 21, 2016}}</ref><ref name="SelfStyledSocialist">{{cite news |date=April 7, 1981 |title=Self-Styled Socialist Takes Oath as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[Boston Globe]]}}</ref> Pada periode pertama, para pendukungnya⁠—termasuk [[Terry Bouricius]], anggota dewan kota pertama dari [[Citizens Party (Amerika Serikat)|Partai Masyarakat]]⁠—membentuk Koalisi Progresif yang nantinya menjelma menjadi [[Partai Progresif Vermont]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Senator Bernie Sanders |website=Vermont Progressive Party |url=http://progressiveparty.org/2009/07/senator-bernie-sanders/ |date=July 1, 2009 |accessdate=June 8, 2015 |archive-date=2017-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901021217/http://progressiveparty.org/2009/07/senator-bernie-sanders/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Koalisi Progresif hanya menduduki 6 dari 13 kursi dewan kota, tetapi cukup untuk mencegah dewan memveto kebijakan Sanders. Pada masa pemerintahan Sanders, Burlington menjadi kota pertama di Amerika Serikat yang mendanai proyek [[perwalian tanah rakyat|perumahan rakyat]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dreier |first1=Peter |last2=Clavel |first2=Pierre |title=Bernie's Burlington: What Kind of Mayor Was Bernie Sanders? |website=[[Huffington Post]] |date=June 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403083551/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernies-burlington-what-k_b_7510704 |archivedate=April 3, 2019 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/bernies-burlington-what-k_b_7510704.html |accessdate=August 6, 2015}}</ref>

Pada tahun 1988, anggota DPR petahana [[Jim Jeffords]] (R) memutuskan maju sebagai calon senator. Kursi [[daerah pemilihan tunggal Vermont]] otomatis diperebutkan. Mantan [[LetnanWakil Gubernur Vermont|LetnanWakil Gubernur]], [[Peter P. Smith]] (R), terpilih sebagai anggota DPR dengan suara pluralitas 41%. Sanders, calon independen, menempati posisi kedua dengan 38% suara. Anggota DPRD Vermont, [[Paul N. Poirier]] (D), menyusul di posisi ketiga dengan 19% suara.<ref>{{cite web |title=VT At-Large Race, November 8, 1988 |publisher=ourcampaigns.com |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=37984 |accessdate=February 17, 2013}}</ref> Dua tahun kemudian, ia maju lagi dan mengalahkan Smith dengan selisih 56% banding 39%.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/308177/Rep10.pdf| title=Vermont State archives – General Election Results| accessdate=March 31, 2016| archive-date=2016-12-20| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220174638/https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/308177/Rep10.pdf| dead-url=yes}}</ref>

Sanders merupakan politikus independen pertama yang menjadi anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat AS sejak [[Frazier Reams]] terpilih mewakili Ohio 40 tahun sebelumnya.<ref name=Pertman>{{cite news |last=Pertman |first=Adam |date=November 11, 1990 |title='The Times Caught Up' To Vermont Socialist |work=[[Boston Globe]] |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/61683884.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+11%2C+1990&author=Adam+Pertman%2C+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=%27THE+TIMES+CAUGHT+UP%27+TO+VERMONT+SOCIALIST&pqatl=google |access-date=2020-02-02 |archive-date=2013-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112214456/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294560914.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov%2011,%201990&author=Adam%20Pertman,%20Globe%20Staff&pub=Boston%20Globe%20(pre-1997%20Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=&desc=%27THE%20TIMES%20CAUGHT%20UP%27%20TO%20VERMONT%20SOCIALIST |dead-url=yes }}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' dan media massa lainnya menyebut Sanders adalah sosialis pertama yang terpilih sebagai anggota DPR dalam puluhan tahun terakhir.<ref name=Pertman/><ref name=Daly>{{cite news |last=Daly |first=Christopher B. |date=November 11, 1990 |title=For Vermont's Sanders, Victory Followed Long Path; First Socialist Elected to House in Decades Gets Attention With Frank Talk of Class Conflict |work=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/11/for-vermonts-sanders-victory-followed-long-path/36a3036c-d738-4039-a728-891ae9aba9f5/ |accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name=Pertman/>

Sanders juga menyetujui sejumlah aturan pengendalian senjata api.<ref name="Tampa Bay Times"/><ref>{{Cite book|title=What Happened |title-link=What Happened (Clinton book) |last=Clinton |first=Hillary |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-5011-7556-5 |location=|page=[https://archive.org/details/whathappened0000clin_q6o5/page/186 186]}}</ref><ref name="Tampa Bay Times"/> Misalnya, pada tahun 1994, ia mendukung [[Undang-Undang Pengendalian Tindak Pidana Kekerasan dan Penegakan Hukum]] (Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act) "karena satu paket dengan Undang-Undang Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan (Violence Against Women Act) dan larangan senjata serbu jenis tertentu". Namun demikian, ia tetap mengkritik keras beberapa bagian RUU tersebut.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Capehart |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/25/hillary-clinton-responds-to-activist-who-demanded-apology-for-superpredator-remarks/ |title=Hillary Clinton on 'superpredator' remarks: 'I shouldn't have used those words' |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 25, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Where do Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders stand on the death penalty? |date=September 2, 2015 |first=Will |last=Cabaniss |work=[[Politifact]] |url=https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/sep/02/viral-image/where-do-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-stand-/ |accessdate=February 26, 2016}}</ref> Meski Sanders mengakui "ada anggota masyarakat yang sangat ganas, sangat sakit, dan [[gangguan kepribadian antisosial|sosiopatik]], dan mereka harus dikurung supaya tidak melukai masyarakat", ia tetap percaya kebijakan pemerintah telah mendorong "puluhan juta anak muda ke masa depan yang penuh kegetiran, kegelisahan, keputusasaan, obat-obatan, kejahatan, dan kekerasan". Ia juga berpendapat kebijakan-kebijakan represif yang tertuang dalam RUU ini tidak menyelesaikan masalah kekerasan, "kita buat lapangan kerja yang bermanfaat, tata ulang masyarakat kita, atau kita bangun penjara yang lebih banyak lagi".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1994-04-13/html/CREC-1994-04-13-pt1-PgH49.htm |work=Congressional Record, Volume 140, Number 39 |date=April 13, 1994 |publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Publishing Office]] |accessdate=December 18, 2019 |title=Congressional Record, Volume 140 Issue 39 (Wednesday, April 13, 1994) }}</ref>

Tahun 1998, Sanders menyetujui RUU yang menambah masa kurungan minimum (10 tahun) untuk kasus kepemilikan senjata api saat melakukan tindak pidana federal, termasuk tindak pidana non-kekerasan seperti kepemilikan [[marijuana]].<ref name="Tampa Bay Times"/><ref name="Kristian 2016">{{cite news |last1=Kristian |first1=Bonnie |title=Bernie Sanders is not nearly as progressive as you think he is |url=https://theweek.com/articles/603044/bernie-sanders-not-nearly-progressive-think |accessdate=February 11, 2019 |work=The Week |date=February 9, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Tampa Bay Times"/><ref>{{cite web |title=HR 424 - Minimum Sentences for Gun Crimes - National Key Vote |url=https://votesmart.org/bill/2915/8175/27110/minimum-sentences-for-gun-crimes |website=votesmart.org |publisher=[[Vote Smart]] |accessdate=February 11, 2019}}</ref>

Sanders konsisten mengkritik [[Undang-Undang Patriot]] (Patriot Act).<ref name="blogs.wsj.com">{{cite web |last=Tau |first=Byron |date=May 7, 2015 |title=Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders Revel in NSA Ruling |website=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/05/07/rand-paul-bernie-sanders-revel-in-nsa-ruling/ |accessdate=August 19, 2015}}</ref> Sebagai anggota Kongres, ia menolak rancangan pertama UU Patriot.<ref>{{cite web |title=Final Vote Results for Roll Call 398 |publisher=Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml |accessdate=May 19, 2015}}</ref> Setelah disahkan DPR dengan suara 357–66, ia mensponsori dan menyetujui beberapa amendemen serta undang-undang yang membatasi dampaknya<ref>{{cite web |last=Hudson |first=David L., Jr. |date=May 25, 2004 |title=Patriot Act |website=Libraries and First Amendment |publisher=First Amendment Center |url=http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/patriot-act |accessdate=May 19, 2015 |archive-date=2016-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220021410/http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/patriot-act |dead-url=yes }}</ref> dan menolak semua penerapan ulang (''reauthorization'').<ref>{{cite news |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |date=May 7, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders: It's Time To End Orwellian Surveillance of Every American |work=Time |url=https://time.com/3850839/bernie-sanders-usa-patriot-act/ |accessdate=July 19, 2015}}</ref> Pada Juni 2005, Sanders mengusulkan amendemen pembatasan pasal-pasal UU Patriot yang memungkinkan pemerintah memperoleh catatan peminjaman dan pembelian buku setiap orang. Amendemen ini disahkan DPR dengan suara mayoritas bipartisan, tetapi dicabut pada 4{{nbsp}}November 2005 setelah DPR–Senat berunding sehingga tidak berketetapan hukum.<ref>{{cite journal |date=November 4, 2005 |title=Sanders' Freedom to Read Language Dropped from Spending Bill |journal=American Library Association Washington Office Newsline |volume=14 |number=107 |url=http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washnews/2005ab/107nov04.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060604000337/http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washnews/2005ab/107nov04.htm |archivedate=June 4, 2006}}</ref>

Sanders maju dalam pemilu Senat AS pada 21 April 2005 setelah Senator Jim Jeffords mengumumkan tidak mencalonkan diri lagi. [[Chuck Schumer]], ketua [[Komite Kampanye Senator Demokrat]], mendukung Sanders. Dukungan ini berarti calon lain dari Demokrat tidak akan dibantu oleh partai. Sanders juga didukung oleh [[Ketua partai Senat Amerika Serikat|Ketua Minoritas Senat]] [[Harry Reid]] dari Nevada serta ketua [[Komite Nasional Demokrat]] dan mantan gubernur Vermont [[Howard Dean]]. Dean menganggap Sanders sekutu yang "hampir selalu sejalan dengan fraksi Demokrat."<ref>{{cite web |date=May 22, 2005 |title=Transcript for May 22: Guest: Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic Party |publisher= [[NBC News]] |work=[[Meet the Press]] |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7924139 |accessdate=August 1, 2011}}</ref> Senator [[Barack Obama]] ikut berkampanye mendukung Sanders di Vermont pada Maret 2006.<ref>{{cite web |last=Krieg |first=Gregory |date=July 9, 2015 |title=Watch Young Senator Barack Obama Campaign for Bernie Sanders in 2006 |publisher=mic.com |quote=Back in March 2006, the future president traveled to Vermont to headline a rally and fundraiser for then-Rep. Bernie Sanders, an independent running for Senate, and Pete Welch, a Democrat seeking election to Sanders's House seat. |url=https://www.mic.com/articles/122011/watch-young-senator-barack-obama-campaign-for-bernie-sanders-in-2006 |accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref> Sanders membuat kesepakatan dengan Partai Demokrat agar namanya disertakan dalam pemilihan pendahuluan, tetapi ia akan menolak pencalonan resmi partai apabila menang.<ref>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Jessica |date=June 24, 2015 |title=This Quirky New Hampshire Law Might Keep Bernie Sanders Off The Ballot |publisher=NPR |quote=He did appear on the Democratic primary ballot in Vermont for the Senate in both 2006 and 2012, winning their primary, but he declined the nomination both times so he could run as an independent. |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/24/416929786/this-quirky-new-hampshire-law-might-keep-sanders-off-the-ballot |accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Nichols |first=John |authorlink=John Nichols (journalist) |date=May 26, 2015 |title='Don't Underestimate Me': Bernie Sanders Knows a Thing or Two About Winning |work=The Nation |quote=When Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords, a Republican who turned independent in his last term, announced that he was stepping down in 2006, Sanders jumped into a race that a number of Democrats would have liked to run. He won the Democratic primary and then declined the nomination, mounting an audacious independent run that was not supposed to be easy. |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/why-bernie-sanders-says-dont-underestimate-me/ |accessdate=July 20, 2015 |archive-date=2015-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717002914/http://www.thenation.com/article/why-bernie-sanders-says-dont-underestimate-me/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref>

Dalam kampanye politik termahal sepanjang sejarah Vermont,<ref name="BGlobe-110706">{{cite news |last=Ring |first=Wilson |date=November 7, 2006 |title=Sanders, Welch are winners in Vermont |work=[[Boston Globe]] |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2006/VT/2006-11-08-us-congress_x.htm |accessdate=January 25, 2007}}</ref> ia mengalahkan pebisnis [[Rich Tarrant]] dengan selisih 2 banding 1. Banyak kantor berita yang memperkirakan Sanders sebagai pemenang tidak lama setelah jajak pendapat berakhir dan sebelum surat suara dihitung. Ia terpilih lagi tahun 2012 dengan perolehan suara 71%,<ref>{{cite web |title=Vermont Election Results |website=Decision 2012 |publisher=NBC News |url=http://elections.nbcnews.com/ns/politics/2012/vermont/ |accessdate=April 21, 2013|date=December 2, 2011 }}</ref> lalu menang lagi tahun 2018 dengan 67% suara.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/914457/2018-ge-winnerlisting.pdf|title=Vermont electoral results, 2018|last=Vermont Secretary of State|date=November 2018|website=State of Vermont|access-date=|archive-date=2019-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108053637/https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/914457/2018-ge-winnerlisting.pdf|dead-url=yes}}</ref>

Tahun 2008 dan 2009, Sanders menolak [[Troubled Asset Relief Program|Program Pemulihan Aset Bermasalah]] (TARP, biasa disebut penalangan Wall Street), kebijakan pembelian aset-aset bank yang bermasalah dan pemberian pinjaman kepada bank yang melesu.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Eugene |last=Kiely |url=https://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/clinton-sanders-bailout-brawl/|title=Clinton-Sanders Bailout Brawl - FactCheck.org|date=March 7, 2016|work=FactCheck.org|access-date=June 4, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/07/hillary-clinton/michigan-hillary-clinton-says-bernie-sanders-was-a/ |title=In Michigan, Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders 'was against the auto bailout'|work=[[politifact]] |access-date=June 4, 2018 |first=Lauren |last=Carroll |date=March 7, 2016 }}</ref> Pada tanggal 4 Februari 2009, ia mengajukan amendemen yang menjamin dana TARP tidak akan merugikan kelas pekerja Amerika. Amendemen ini disahkan dan ditambahkan ke [[Undang-Undang Pemulihan dan Reinvestasi Amerika Serikat 2009]] (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).<ref name=Levitz>{{cite news |last1=Levitz |first1=Eric |title=Hillary Clinton Won’t Commit to Endorsing Sanders If He Wins Nomination |url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-attack-hollywood-reporter-fact-check.html |accessdate=January 22, 2020 |work=New York |publisher=Vox Media |date=January 21, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Legislative Search Results|url = https://www.congress.gov/amendment/111th-congress/senate-amendment/306|accessdate = January 22, 2020}}</ref> Beberapa reformasi keuangan yang diusulkannya adalah [[Undang-Undang Transparansi Federal Reserve|audit Federal Reserve]] yang akan mengurangi independensi bank sentral dalam perumusan kebijakan moneter; pejabat Federal Reserve mengatakan aturan "''Audit the Fed''" ini akan membuat bank sentral lebih mudah ditekan oleh politikus yang tidak suka kebijakan-kebijakannya.<ref name="Robb">{{Cite news|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/audit-the-fed-bill-fails-despite-support-from-paul-sanders-2016-01-12 |date=January 12, 2016 |title='Audit the Fed' bill fails despite support from Paul, Sanders|last=Robb|first=Greg|work=MarketWatch|access-date=December 16, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="usnews.com">{{cite web |title=Democrats Kill Rand Paul's Audit the Fed Bill, Though Sanders Votes Yes |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-01-12/democrats-kill-rand-pauls-audit-the-fed-bill-though-sanders-votes-yes |last=Nelson |first=Steven |date=January 12, 2016|website=U.S. News & World Report |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112230625/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-01-12/democrats-kill-rand-pauls-audit-the-fed-bill-though-sanders-votes-yes|archive-date=January 12, 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=}}</ref><ref name="Schroeder">{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/265556-sanders-to-back-audit-the-fed-bill |title=Sanders to vote for Paul's 'Audit the Fed' bill|last=Schroeder|first=Peter|date=January 12, 2016|work=TheHill|access-date=December 16, 2017}}</ref>

Usai pidato ini, ratusan orang menandatangani petisi daring yang mendorong Sanders maju dalam pilpres 2012. Beberapa lembaga riset mulai menakar popularitasnya di negara-negara bagian penting menjelang [[pemilihan pendahuluan]].<ref name="Prez"/> Aktivis-aktivis [[progresivisme kontemporer|progresif]] seperti Rabbi [[Michael Lerner (rabbi)|Michael Lerner]] dan ekonom [[David Korten]] akan mendukung apabila Sanders maju melawan Presiden Obama.<ref name="Prez">{{cite news |last=Nichols |first=John |authorlink=John Nichols (journalist) |date=December 29, 2010 |title=That 'Sanders for President' Talk is Real Enough, But Bernie's Not Going There |work=[[The Nation]] |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-president-talk-real-enough-bernies-not-going-there/ |access-date=2020-02-02 |archive-date=2021-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210102220553/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/sanders-president-talk-real-enough-bernies-not-going-there/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> [[Nation Books]] menerbitkan pidatonya pada pada Februari 2011 dengan judul ''The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class''. Hasil penjualannya disumbangkan ke sejumlah [[lembaga swadaya masyarakat|badan amal nirlaba]] di Vermont.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/03/15/sanders-85-hour-tax-cut-filibuster-gets-a-book|title=Sanders's 8.5 Hour Tax Cut Filibuster Gets a Book|first=Paul|last=Bedard|magazine=US News|date=March 15, 2011|accessdate=May 15, 2016}}</ref>

Pada tanggal 12 Juni 2017, Senat AS menyepakati undang-undang yang menjatuhkan [[Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act|sanksi baru]] untuk [[Rusia]] dan [[Iran]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Bernie's Vote On Sanctions Was About Protecting The Iran Deal From Trump |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernies-vote-on-sanctions-was-about-protecting-the-iran-deal-from-trump_b_597df7f8e4b0da64e879b55e |first=Ida |last=Adibi |work=HuffPost |date=July 30, 2017 |access-date=2020-02-02 |archive-date=2020-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019160215/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernies-vote-on-sanctions-was-about-protecting-the-iran-deal-from-trump_b_597df7f8e4b0da64e879b55e |dead-url=yes }}</ref> RUU ini ditolak oleh Sanders dan [[Rand Paul]] (R).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dw.com/en/us-bill-on-russia-sanctions-prompts-german-austrian-outcry/a-39270624 |title=US bill on Russia sanctions prompts German, Austrian outcry |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] |date=June 15, 2017 }}</ref> Ia mendukung sanksi untuk Rusia, tetapi menolak RUU secara keseluruhan karena ia yakin sanksi berpotensi menggagalkan [[kesepakatan nuklir Iran]].<ref>{{cite press release |last= Sanders|first= Bernie|date= June 15, 2017|title= Sanders Statement on Iran and Russia Sanctions|url= https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-iran-and-russia-sanctions|location= [[Washington, D.C.]]|publisher= [[United States Senate]]|access-date= August 27, 2019}} {{Cite web |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-iran-and-russia-sanctions |title=Salinan arsip |access-date=2020-02-02 |archive-date=2020-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109164255/https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-iran-and-russia-sanctions |dead-url=yes }}</ref>

Tahun 2018, Sanders bersama Senator [[Chris Murphy]] (D–CT) dan [[Mike Lee (politikus AS)|Mike Lee]] (R–UT) mensponsori RUU pengaktifan [[Resolusi Kekuasaan Perang|Resolusi Kekuasaan Perang 1973]] yang menyetop dukungan AS untuk [[intervensi pimpinan Arab Saudi di Yaman|intervensi militer Saudi di Yaman]].<ref name=":4">{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/676152310/senate-poised-to-vote-to-end-u-s-military-support-for-war-in-yemen|title=Senate votes to end U.S. support for war in Yemen, rebuking Trump and Saudi Arabia|last=Detrow|first=Scott|date=December 13, 2018|work=[[NPR]]|access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref> Intervensi ini menewaskan ratusan ribu warga sipil<ref name=":5">{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/after-inadequate-briefing-saudi-arabia-senate-advances-bill-end-u-n941386|title=Senate advances bill to end U.S. involvement in Yemen war after 'inadequate' briefing on Saudi Arabia|last=Caldwell|first=Leigh Ann|date=November 28, 2018|work=[[NBC News]]|access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref> dan "jutaan orang lain kelaparan dan sakit".<ref name=":14">{{cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/2018/11/28/18116442/yemen-war-powers-senate-vote-sanders|title=The Senate is moving closer to ending US support for the war in Yemen|last=Ward|first=Alex|date=November 28, 2018|work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/54|title=Senate Joint Resolution 54 of the 115th Congress: A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress|last=|first=|date=December 19, 2018|website=[[Congress.gov]]|access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref> Usai [[pembunuhan Jamal Khashoggi]] bulan Oktober 2018 (yang diperintahkan langsung oleh [[Putra Mahkota Arab Saudi]] [[Mohammad bin Salman]] menurut intelijen),<ref name=":15">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/yemen-saudi-war-pompeo-mattis.html|title=Senate votes to end aid for Yemen fight over Khashoggi killing and Saudis' war aims|last=Davis|first=Julie Hirschfeld|date=December 13, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=January 1, 2019|last2=Schmitt|first2=Eric|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> RUU ini disponsori dan didukung oleh kedua belah partai. Senat mengesahkan RUU dengan perolehan suara 56–41.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=2&vote=00266 |title= Roll Call Vote 115th Congress - 2nd Session |website=Senate.gov |quote=Vote Number 266 |date=December 13, 2018 |accessdate=December 20, 2019 }}</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" /> <ref name=":4" /> RUU ini disahkan DPR bulan Februari 2019 dengan perolehan suara 247-175. Presiden Trump menolak menandatanganinya pada bulan Maret karena "resolusi ini tindakan tidak perlu yang bertujuan melemahkan kewenangan konstitusional saya, mengancam keselamatan warga negara dan tentara Amerika kini dan nanti."<ref>{{cite web |title=Trump vetoes resolution to end U.S. participation in Yemen’s civil war |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vetoes-resolution-to-end-us-participation-in-yemens-civil-war/2019/04/16/0fabc312-60a1-11e9-bfad-36a7eb36cb60_story.html |website=The Washington Post |accessdate=January 21, 2020}}</ref>

Selaku ketua Subkomite Kesehatan Primer dan Lanjut Usia Senat, Sanders mengusulkan pemulihan dan penguatan [[Undang-Undang Masyarakat Lanjut Usia Amerika]] (Older Americans Act) yang mendukung [[Meals on Wheels]] (pengantaran makanan) dan program serupa bagi kalangan lansia.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 23, 2015 |title=Older Americans Act |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/2013/05/23/older-americans-act |website=Sanders.Senate.gov |accessdate=July 4, 2015 |archive-date=2020-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109031033/https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/2013/05/23/older-americans-act |dead-url=yes }}</ref>

Jajak pendapat [[Public Policy Polling]] bulan Agustus 2011 menunjukkan 67% responden mendukung Sanders dan 28% tidak mendukung; Sanders menjadi senator terpopuler ketiga di Amerika Serikat.<ref name="Easley"/> [[NAACP]] (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) dan [[National Hispanic Leadership Agenda|NHLA]] (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) setuju dengan semua keputusan dan suara Sanders di Senat.<ref name="Ackerman2015">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/sanders-race-primary-president-civil-rights/ |title=Give the People What They Want: Bernie Sanders' signature issues aren't 'white' issues |magazine=[[Jacobin (majalah)|Jacobin]] |date=June 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721162037/http://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/sanders-race-primary-president-civil-rights/ |archive-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=live |last=Ackerman |first=Seth |issn=2158-2602}}</ref> Pada tahun 2015, ia masuk lima besar tokoh pilihan ''[[The Forward]]'' 50.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 11, 2015 |url=https://forward.com/series/forward-50/2015/ |title=Forward 50 2015 |newspaper=[[The Forward]] |accessdate=November 11, 2015}}</ref> Menurut japat Morning Consult November 2015, ia didukung oleh 83% konstituennya dan menjadi senator terpopuler di seluruh AS.<ref name="newsweek.com"/> Dalam japat Fox News Maret 2017, Sanders memperoleh selisih dukungan bersih tertinggi (+28 poin).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/17/everyone-loves-bernie-sanders-except-democratic-party |first=Trevor |last=Timm |accessdate=December 18, 2019 |title=Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party |work=The Guardian |date=March 17, 2017 }}</ref> Namanya menempati urutan ketiga tahun 2014 dan pertama tahun 2015 dan 2016.<ref name="newsweek.com">{{cite news |first=Taylor |last=Wofford |accessdate=December 18, 2019 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-most-popular-senator-397853 |title=Bernie Sanders Is America's Most Popular Senator, New Survey Says |work=Newsweek |date=November 24, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Easley">{{cite web |last=Easley |first=Jason |date=August 2, 2011 |title=Americans Love Socialism: Bernie Sanders Is The 3rd Most Popular US Senator |website=Politics USA |url=http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/08/02/socialism-bernie-sanders.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229152746/http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/08/02/socialism-bernie-sanders.html |archivedate=December 29, 2014 |accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="newsweek.com">{{cite news |first=Taylor |last=Wofford |accessdate=December 18, 2019 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-most-popular-senator-397853 |title=Bernie Sanders Is America's Most Popular Senator, New Survey Says |work=Newsweek |date=November 24, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Newsweek">{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-most-popular-senator-453479 |title=Bernie Sanders is America's Most Popular Senator, Mitch McConnell its Least |website=Newsweek |date=April 28, 2016 |accessdate=September 17, 2016 |author=Wofford, Taylor}}</ref>

Acara kampanye Sanders bulan Juni 2015 dihadiri oleh pendukung dari berbagai penjuru AS.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |first=Sofia |last=Tesfaye |date=June 16, 2015 |url=https://www.salon.com/2015/06/16/america_is_feeling_the_bern_bernie_sanders_draws_overflow_crowds_and_surges_in_the_polls/ |title=America is feeling the Bern: Bernie Sanders draws overflow crowds{{snd}}and surges in the polls |work=[[Salon.com]] |accessdate=June 16, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Wagner |date=June 15, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/15/meet-the-people-coming-to-see-bernie-sanders-in-iowa/ |title=Meet the people coming to see Bernie Sanders in Iowa |work=The Washington Post |accessdate=June 16, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Keith">{{cite news |first=Tamara |last=Keith |date=June 15, 2015 |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/15/414689799/bernie-sanders-stunned-by-large-crowds-showing-up-for-him |title=Bernie Sanders 'Stunned' By Large Crowds Showing Up For Him |work=NPR |accessdate=June 16, 2015 }}</ref> Ketika [[Hillary Clinton]] dan Sanders berkampanye di Des Moines, Iowa, kerumunan di acara Sanders justru lebih banyak, padahal Sanders sudah duluan keliling Iowa dan ini kunjungan pertama Clinton di Iowa tahun 2015.<ref name=GuardianSandersVsClinton>{{cite web |last=Jacobs |first=Ben |date=June 25, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders closes on Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire Democrats poll |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/25/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-new-hampshire-democrats-poll |website=The Guardian |accessdate=July 2, 2015}}</ref> Pada 1 Juli 2015, Sanders mampir ke Madison, Wisconsin, dan acaranya dihadiri oleh ±10.000 orang, waktu itu kerumunan terbesar sepanjang masa kampanye pilpres 2016.<ref name="MSNBCMadisonBiggestCrowd">{{cite web |last=Seitz-Wald |first=Alex |date=July 1, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders draws biggest crowd of any 2016 candidate yet |publisher=MSNBC |url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-draws-biggest-crowd-any-2016-candidate-yet |accessdate=July 2, 2015}}</ref><ref name="HuffPo10K">{{cite web |last=Reilly |first=Mollie |date=July 1, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders Draws His Biggest Crowd Yet In Progressive Stronghold |website=HuffPost |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-madison_n_7709966 |accessdate=July 2, 2015}}</ref> Selama beberapa minggu selanjutnya, acaranya dihadiri oleh kerumunan yang lebih besar lagi: 11.000 orang di Arizona,<ref name="Washington Post AZ crowd">{{cite web |last=Wagner |first=John |date=July 19, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders draws his biggest crowd yet&nbsp;– in Arizona of all places |website=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/19/bernie-sanders-draws-his-biggest-crowd-yet-in-arizona-of-all-places/ |accessdate=July 21, 2015}}</ref> 15.000 orang di Seattle,<ref>{{cite web |last=Connelly |first=Joel |date=August 8, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders draws 15,000 people at UW, state's biggest political crowd since 2010 Obama visit |website=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/08/08/bernie-sanders-draws-15000-people-at-uw-states-biggest-political-crowd-since-2010-obama-visit/ |accessdate=August 9, 2015 |archive-date=2015-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150809153712/http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/08/08/bernie-sanders-draws-15000-people-at-uw-states-biggest-political-crowd-since-2010-obama-visit/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> dan 28.000 orang di Portland, Oregon.<ref>{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Cillizza |date=August 10, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/10/this-bernie-sanders-crowd-shot-should-make-hillary-clinton-a-little-jittery/ |title=This Bernie Sanders crowd shot should make Hillary Clinton a little jittery |work=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=August 10, 2015 }}</ref>

[[Amy Goodman]], wartawan ''[[Democracy Now!]]'', mengatakan pidato Trump, Clinton, [[Marco Rubio]], dan [[Ted Cruz]] dalam rangka [[Super Tuesday]] III tanggal 15 Maret disiarkan penuh. Sanders saat itu sedang berada di Phoenix, Arizona, berpidato di hadapan kerumunan yang lebih besar daripada kerumunan calon lainnya, tetapi acaranya sendiri tidak disebutkan di media.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/29/bernie_sanders_i_was_stunned_by |work=[[Democracy Now]] |date=November 29, 2016 |first=Amy |last=Goodman |accessdate=December 18, 2019 |title=Bernie Sanders: "I Was Stunned" by Corporate Media Blackout During Democratic Primary }}</ref>

Dalam pemilihan umum tanggal 8 November, Sanders meraup hampir 6% suara [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016 di Vermont|di Vermont]], padahal ia bukan calon resmi. Ini persentase suara [[calon tidak terdaftar|tak terdaftar]] tingkat daerah tertinggi sepanjang sejarah Amerika Serikat.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/190417-ralph-nader-got-the-most-write-in-votes-for-president-ever-but-election-write-ins-have-a-long |title=Ralph Nader Got The Most Write-In Votes For President Ever, But Election Write-Ins Have A Long History |last=Warner |first=Claire |date=October 19, 2016 |access-date=September 6, 2017}}</ref> Jumlah suaranya di Vermont lebih banyak daripada total suara untuk [[Gary Johnson]], capres [[Partai Libertarian (Amerika Serikat)|Libertarian]], dan [[Jill Stein]], capres [[Partai Hijau Amerika Serikat|Hijau]].<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://vtelectionresults.sec.state.vt.us/Index.html#/home|title=Vermont Election Night Results|website=vtelectionresults.sec.state.vt.us|access-date=September 6, 2017|archive-date=2017-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811143454/https://vtelectionresults.sec.state.vt.us/Index.html#/home|dead-url=yes}}</ref>

Pemilih boleh menulis sendiri nama Sanders di 12 negara bagian.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://heavy.com/news/2016/11/how-many-write-in-votes-for-did-bernie-sanders-get-presidential-election-results-california-iowa-new-hampshire-pennsylvania-vermont-total/ |title=How Many Write-In Votes Did Bernie Sanders Get in the&nbsp;Election?|last=Dwilson|first=Stephanie Dube|date=November 16, 2016|work=Heavy.com|access-date=September 6, 2017}}</ref> Suara tulis dihitung di tiga negara bagian: [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016 di California|California]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2016-general/sov/17-presidential-formatted.pdf |title=Presidential election results in California, 2016|website=sos.ca.gov|access-date=September 6, 2017}}</ref> [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016 di New Hampshire|New Hampshire]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sos.nh.gov/2016PresGen.aspx?id=8589963688|title=President of the United States – 2016 General Election – NHSOS|website=sos.nh.gov|access-date=September 6, 2017|archive-date=2017-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915230044/http://sos.nh.gov/2016PresGen.aspx?id=8589963688|dead-url=yes}}</ref> dan [[pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 2016 di Vermont|Vermont]].<ref name=":2"/> Total suara tulis untuk Sanders di tiga negara bagian ini berjumlah 111.850, kira-kira 15% dari total suara tulis nasional dan tidak sampai 1% total suara nasional.<ref name=":3"/>

Pada November 2016, Sanders merilis buku ''[[Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In]]''. Buku ini langsung bertengger di peringkat ketiga [[The New York Times Best Seller list|daftar buku terlaris ''The New York Times'']]. Buku lisannya mendapat nominasi Grammy Award kategori Best Spoken Word Album.<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnson |first=Ted |date=November 27, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders Earns Grammy Nomination|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://variety.com/2017/politics/news/bernie-sanders-grammy-nomination-1202624408/|accessdate=November 27, 2017}}</ref> Pada Februari 2017, ia mulai menyiarkan ''The Bernie Sanders Show'' secara langsung lewat [[Facebook live|Facebook]]. [[William Barber II|William Barber]], [[Josh Fox]], [[Jane Mayer]], dan [[Bill Nye the Science Guy|Bill Nye]] pernah diundang sebagai narasumber. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/democrats-vs-trump/sanders-show-welcome-bernie-tv-n741571|title=The Sanders Show: Welcome to 'Bernie TV' |first=Alex |last=Seitz-Wald |work=NBC News |date=April 2, 2017|accessdate=April 4, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/2017/04/03/forget-trump-tv-bernie-sanders-has-struck-gold-with-his-new-online-show/ |first=Charlie |last=May |title=Forget Trump TV. Bernie Sanders has struck gold with his new Facebook Live show|date=April 3, 2017|accessdate=April 4, 2017}}</ref> Jajak pendapat tahun 2017 mendaulat Sanders sebagai politikus terpopuler di Amerika Serikat.<ref name="thehill.com">{{cite web |last=Easley |first=Jonathan |date=April 18, 2017|title=Poll: Bernie Sanders country's most popular active politician|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/329404-poll-bernie-sanders-countrys-most-popular-active-politician |accessdate=April 20, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Schwartz">{{cite news |last= Schwartz|first=Drew |date=August 24, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders Is the Most Popular Politician in America, Poll Says|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xww4ek/bernie-sanders-is-the-most-popular-politician-in-america-poll-says-vgtrn|work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=August 25, 2017}}</ref>

Sanders memandang [[pemanasan global]] sebagai masalah serius.<ref name="Totten">{{cite news |last=Totten |first=Shay |date=January 15, 2007 |title=Sanders to push global warming legislation in Senate |work=Vermont Guardian |quote=Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, said Monday he was making good on at least one of a handful of campaign promises&nbsp;— introducing a bill designed to cut U.S. contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade. ... Sanders added that construction of new power plants is "extraordinarily expensive" and he would prefer to see federal funding support used to expand the development of sustainable energy, as well as biofuels. |url=https://www.vermontguardian.com/local/012007/GlobalWarmingBill.shtml |accessdate=August 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508004601/http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/012007/GlobalWarmingBill.shtml |archive-date=May 8, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Ia mendorong kebijakan yang lebih radikal untuk membalikkan efek gas rumah kaca. Ia menuntut peningkatan anggaran [[infrastruktur]] yang lebih mengutamakan "penghematan energi dan [[keberlanjutan]]" serta [[penciptaan lapangan kerja]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/22/bernie_sanders_at_peoples_climate_march |title=Bernie Sanders at People's Climate March: To Stop Global Warming, Get Dirty Money Out of Politics |work=[[Democracy now!]] |date=September 22, 2014 |first=Amy |last=Goodman }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Ashley, III |last=Halsey |date=January 27, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2015/01/27/bernie-sanders-wants-to-spend-1-trillion-on-infrastruture/ |title=Bernie Sanders wants to spend $1 trillion on infrastruture |work=The Washington Post |accessdate=August 18, 2015 }}</ref> Menurutnya, [[perubahan iklim dan keamanan nasional|perubahan iklim adalah ancaman terbesar]] bagi keamanan nasional.<ref name="Totten"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/260184-sanders-climate-change-still-greatest-threat-to-national-security |first=Jonathan |last=Easley |date=November 14, 2015 |title=Sanders: Climate change still greatest threat to national security |newspaper=The Hill |accessdate=December 19, 2019 }}</ref><ref name="Totten"/> Ia percaya [[keluarga berencana]] turut berkontribusi melawan perubahan iklim.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bernie Sanders in climate change 'population control' uproar |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49601678 |publisher=BBC News |date=5 September 2019}}</ref> Ia menolak pembangunan [[Akses Pipa Dakota]] dan [[Pipa Keystone XL]] karena "akan menimbulkan efek negatif terhadap iklim."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/10/bernie-sanders-dakota-access-pipeline/ |title=Bernie Sanders Just Asked President Obama to Halt the Dakota Access Pipeline |work=Mother Jones |date=October 13, 2016 |first=Alexander |last=Sammon }}</ref> Pada tahun 2019, Sanders mendukung rancangan undang-undang [[Green New Deal]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Olivia |first1=Rosane |title=Bernie Sanders Enters 2020 Race, Promises Own Version of Green New Deal |url=https://www.ecowatch.com/bernie-sanders-2020-2629410846.html |date=February 19, 2019 |website=EcoWatch |accessdate=April 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419115516/https://www.ecowatch.com/bernie-sanders-2020-2629410846.html |archive-date=April 19, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Ia bersama Anggota DPR [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] dan [[Earl Blumenauer]] mengajukan undang-undang yang menetapkan perubahan iklim sebagai kedaruratan nasional dan internasional.<ref>{{cite news |last=Day |first=Meagan |date=July 10, 2019 |title=The US Government Should Declare Climate Emergency|url=https://jacobinmag.com/2019/07/climate-emergency-legislation-bernie-sanders-aoc|work=[[Jacobin (majalah)|Jacobin]] |location= |access-date=July 10, 2019 }}</ref>

Sanders menyoroti isu-isu ekonomi seperti [[kesenjangan pendapatan di Amerika Serikat|kesenjangan pendapatan]] dan [[kesenjangan kekayaan di Amerika Serikat|kekayaan]],<ref name="sanders_confirms"/><ref>{{cite web |title=On the Issues: Income and Wealth Inequality |url=https://berniesanders.com/issues/income-and-wealth-inequality/ |publisher=BernieSanders.com |accessdate=August 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620081832/https://berniesanders.com/issues/income-and-wealth-inequality/ |archive-date=June 20, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[kemiskinan di Amerika Serikat|kemiskinan]],<ref>{{cite news |last= Pilkington|first=Ed|date=December 15, 2017 |title=Trump turning US into 'world champion of extreme inequality', UN envoy warns|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/15/america-un-extreme-poverty-trump-republicans|work=The Guardian |access-date=December 16, 2017|quote=We are moving into 2018 – we should not be living in a country with 41 million people living in poverty and so many more in extreme poverty, and nobody even talks about it. – Bernie Sanders}}</ref> peningkatan upah minimum,<ref name = Lachman/> [[pelayanan kesehatan universal]],<ref name="Jaffe">{{cite news |last=Jaffe |first=Sarah |date=July 14, 2009 |title=Sanders Schools McCain on Public Healthcare |work=[[The Nation]] |quote=Senator Bernie Sanders is one of the Senate's fiercest advocates for real healthcare reform that puts Americans, not private insurance companies, first. Recently, Sanders told The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, '[I]f you are serious about real healthcare reform, the only way to go is [[single-payer]].' |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-schools-mccain-public-healthcare/ |accessdate=October 16, 2013 |archive-date=2015-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706203905/http://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-schools-mccain-public-healthcare/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> pemutihan seluruh [[utang pelajar]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nobles |first1=Ryan|last2=Krieg|first2=Gregory|date=June 23, 2019 |title=Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to cancel all $1.6 trillion of student loan debt|website=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/23/politics/bernie-sanders-student-loan-debt-cancellation/index.html|accessdate=June 24, 2019}}</ref> pembebasan biaya kuliah [[pajak Robin Hood|dengan memajaki transaksi keuangan]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Resnikoff |first=Ned |date=May 19, 2015 |title=Bernie Sanders unveils plan for tuition-free public colleges |publisher=[[Al Jazeera]] |url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/19/bernie-sanders-unveils-plan-for-tuition-free-public-colleges.html |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref> dan perluasan tunjangan [[Social Security (Amerika Serikat)|Social Security]] dengan menghapus batas pajak pendapatan untuk orang-orang yang gajinya melebihi $250.000/tahun.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-calls-on-congress-to-strengthen-and-expand-social-security |title=Sanders Files Bill to Strengthen, Expand Social Security |website=Sanders.Senate.gov |date=March 12, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Nicole |last=Woo |first2=Janelle |last2=Jones |first3=John |last3=Schmitt |date=September 2011 |url=http://cepr.net/publications/reports/whos-above-the-social-security-payroll-tax-cap |title=Who's Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap? |work=[[Center for Economic and Policy Research]] |accessdate=September 7, 2015 |archive-date=2011-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116062936/https://cepr.net/publications/reports/whos-above-the-social-security-payroll-tax-cap |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Ia mengusulkan berbagai aturan yang mewajibkan perusahaan memberikan hak [[cuti hamil]], [[cuti sakit]], dan [[daftar cuti kerja minimal wajib menurut negara|cuti liburan]] kepada pekerja, meniru aturan yang sudah duluan diterapkan di berbagai negara maju.<ref name="agenda">{{cite web |title=Family values agenda: paid family leave, paid sick leave, paid vacation |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/061115-familyvaluesagendafactsheet?inline=file |format=PDF |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref> Ia juga mendukung aturan yang memudahkan pekerja bergabung atau membentuk [[serikat pekerja di Amerika Serikat|serikat pekerja]].<ref name="Economic Agenda">{{cite news |first=Bernie |last=Sanders |date=December 1, 2014 |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/an-economic-agenda-for-am_b_6249022 |title=An Economic Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward |work=HuffPost |accessdate=June 27, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Ned |last=Resnikoff |date=October 6, 2015 |url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/6/bernie-sanders-proposes-labor-law-reforms.html |title=Bernie Sanders proposes sweeping labor law reforms |work=Al Jazeera |accessdate=October 6, 2015 }}</ref> Sanders menolak [[krisis keuangan 2007–08|penalangan bank]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=303544|title=(Video) Bailout Petition Statement|date=September 24, 2008|publisher=Senate.gov|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014003612/http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=303544|archivedate=October 14, 2008|url-status=dead|accessdate=August 29, 2010}}</ref> dan mendorong reformasi keuangan menyeluruh,<ref name="MarketWatch">{{cite web|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/text-of-bernie-sanders-wall-street-and-economy-speech-2016-01-05 |title=Text of Bernie Sanders' Wall Street and economy speech|website=MarketWatch|accessdate=January 6, 2016}}</ref> misalnya memecah lembaga-lembaga keuangan yang sifatnya "[[too big to fail]]" (terlalu besar dan berpengaruh), memulihkan [[undang-undang Glass–Steagall]], mereformasi [[Federal Reserve Bank]], dan mengizinkan Kantor Pos Amerika Serikat membuka layanan perbankan dasar di daerah tertinggal.<ref name="huffingtonpost.com">{{cite news |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |date=May 7, 2015 |title=Break Up Big Banks |work=HuffPost |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/break-up-big-banks_b_7233284 |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="politico.com">{{cite web |last1=Everett |first1=Burgess |title=Bernie Sanders backs big bank breakups, in contrast with Hillary Clinton |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-big-ban-break-ups-glass-steagall-120287 |date=July 17, 2015 |website=[[Politico]] |accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |last1=Sanders |first1=Bernie |title=Bernie Sanders: To Rein In Wall Street, Fix the Fed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/opinion/bernie-sanders-to-rein-in-wall-street-fix-the-fed.html |date=December 23, 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=December 23, 2015}}</ref><ref name="The Atlantic">{{cite web |last1=Pinsker |first1=Joe |title=Bernie Sanders's Highly Sensible Plan to Turn Post Offices Into Banks |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/bernie-sanders-lets-turn-post-offices-into-banks/411589/ |website=The Atlantic |accessdate=January 6, 2016|date=October 20, 2015 }}</ref>

Dalam pidato di [[Westminster College (Missouri)|Westminster College]] bulan September 2017, Sanders menjabarkan "kebijakan luar negeri progresif" yang mendesak perluasan kerja sama internasional, memastikan perjanjian-perjanjian internasional rintisan AS seperti [[Perjanjian Paris]] dan [[kerangka kerja kesepakatan nuklir Iran|kesepakatan nuklir Iran]] dipatuhi oleh semua negara penandatangan, dan mengutamakan hak asasi manusia dan demokrasi. Ia menjelaskan segala bentuk kejahatan yang berkaitan dengan kesenjangan ekonomi global dan perubahan iklim. Ia juga mendorong agar kekuatan militer AS digunakan secara hati-hati dan selalu "digunakan apabila tidak ada jalan lain". Sanders mengkritik habis-habisan [[kebijakan luar negeri Amerika Serikat#Kritik|dukungan AS bagi "rezim-rezim pembantai"]] pada masa [[Perang Dingin]], misalnya [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Iran]], [[kediktatoran militer CileChili (1973–90)|CileChili]], dan [[Junta Pemerintahan Revolusi El Salvador|El Salvador]], dan mengingatkan aksi-aksi tersebut membuat AS semakin rentan diserang.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hancock |first= Jason|date=September 21, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders, in Missouri speech, takes aim at 'outrageous' inequalities|url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article174608901.html |work=[[The Kansas City Star]] |access-date=September 24, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Detrow |first=Scott |date=September 21, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders Lays Out His Foreign Policy Vision|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/09/21/552671703/bernie-sanders-lays-out-his-foreign-policy-vision|publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=September 24, 2017}}</ref> Sanders juga mengkritik [[campur tangan Rusia dalam pemilihan umum Amerika Serikat 2016]] dan cara Presiden Trump menangani krisis tersebut.<ref>{{cite news |last=Berman |first=Paul |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/275223/american-left-2-foreign-policy |title=The Foreign Policy of the American Left |work=Tablet Magazine |date=November 18, 2018 |accessdate=November 27, 2018 }}</ref> Ia mengutuk [[serangan Turki ke Suriah timur laut 2019|serangan militer Turki]] terhadap [[Rojava|pasukan Kurdi]] di [[Suriah]] dan mengatakan [[Turki]] "bukan sekutu AS".<ref>{{cite news |title=Democratic debate: Military veterans Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Buttigieg clash over Syria |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/democratic-debate-tulsi-gabbard-syria-pete-buttigieg-trump-turkey-a9157711.html |work=The Independent |date=October 16, 2019}}</ref>

Pada Desember 1987, ketika menjabat sebagai wali kota Burlington, Sanders bersama 30 musisi asal Vermont merilis album lagu rakyat berjudul ''[[We Shall Overcome (album Bernie Sanders)|We Shall Overcome]]''. Karena ia kurang mahir bernyanyi, ia bernyanyi dengan gaya ''[[talking blues]]''.<ref name="nprbehindthemusic">{{cite news |title=Behind The Music: Bernie Sanders |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/01/30/464736315/behind-the-music-bernie-sanders |accessdate=February 4, 2016 |publisher=NPR |date=January 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-untold-story-of-bernie-sanders-1987-folk-album-20151202 |work=Rolling Stone |title=The Untold Story of Bernie Sanders' 1987 Folk Album |date=December 2, 2015 |accessdate=February 4, 2016 |last=Stuart |first=Tessa |archive-date=2018-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211185947/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-untold-story-of-bernie-sanders-1987-folk-album-20151202 |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Ia tampil memerankan dirinya sendiri dalam film drama komedi ''[[Sweet Hearts Dance]]'' (1988); tokohnya membagi-bagikan permen kepada anak-anak.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avclub.com/article/who-knew-bernie-sanders-had-career-low-budget-rom--231777 |title=Bernie Sanders has appeared in not one, but two low-budget rom-coms |publisher=A.V. Club.com |accessdate=February 5, 2016 |date=February 5, 2016 |last=Blevis|first=Joe}}</ref> Pada tahun 1999, ia memerankan Rabbi Manny Shevitz dalam film ''[[My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception]]''; tokohnya sedih karena [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] pindah ke Los Angeles, mirip-mirip kehidupan masa kecil Sanders di Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bernie-sanders-played-rabbi-1999-romantic-comedy-article-1.2519921 |work=Daily News|location=New York |title=Bernie Sanders plays rabbi Manny Shevitz in 1999 romantic comedy, goes on long-winded Brooklyn Dodgers rant |date=February 4, 2016 |accessdate=February 4, 2016 |last=Wagner|first=Meg}}</ref> Tanggal 6 Februari 2016, Sanders dan [[Larry David]] membintangi ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''; ia memerankan imigran Polandia di atas [[kapal uap]] yang tenggelam dekat [[Patung Liberty]].<ref name="SNL">{{cite web |first=Sam |last=Sanders |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/02/07/465892623/with-a-little-help-from-larry-david-bernie-sanders-does-snl|title = With A Little Help From Larry David, Bernie Sanders Does SNL|publisher = NPR|accessdate = February 7, 2016|date = February 7, 2016}}</ref>

Sanders tidak begitu rajin beribadah di sinagoga. Ia tetap bekerja di tengah [[Rosh Hashanah]], hari libur orang Yahudi. Ia menghadiri upacara [[yahrtzait]] untuk mengenang orang tua temannya. Ia juga ikut upacara pertobatan [[tashlikh]] bersama wali kota Lynchburg pada malam [[Rosh Hashanah]] 2015.<ref name=NYT02242016/> Menurut teman dekatnya, [[Richard Sugarman]], guru besar studi agama [[Universitas Vermont]], identitas Yahudi Sanders "cenderung mengarah ke suku dan budaya alih-alih agama".<ref>{{cite news |last=Kampeas |first=Ron |url=https://forward.com/news/322284/bernie-sanders-opens-up-about-jewish-upbringing-at-last/ |title=Bernie Sanders Opens Up About Jewish Upbringing{{snd}}at Last |work=[[The Forward]] |date=October 8, 2015 }}</ref> [[Deborah Dash Moore]], dosen Yudaisme [[Universitas Michigan]], mengatakan Sanders itu jenis-jenis orang Yahudi yang agak konservatif.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mangla |first=Ismat Sarah |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/why-arent-american-jews-celebrating-bernie-sanders-2016-2311495 |title=Why Aren't American Jews Celebrating Bernie Sanders In 2016? |work=[[International Business Times]] |date=February 18, 2016 }}</ref> Jane menganut [[Katolik Roma]] dan Sanders sendiri suka kagum dengan [[Paus Fransiskus]]. Katanya, "sang pemimpin [[Gereja Katolik]] mengangkat berbagai persoalan penting. Kita perlu menyimak perkataan beliau." Ia merasa "sangat dekat" dengan ajaran-ajaran Fransiskus di bidang ekonomi dan memujinya sebagai sosok yang "cerdas dan berani".<ref name=gaudiano/><ref name="Pope Francis">{{cite web |last=Sanders |first=Bernie |date=February 15, 2015 |title=Pope Francis |publisher=Senate.gov |url=https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/video-audio/pope-francis |accessdate=June 13, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Heilman |first=Uriel |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35999269 |title=New Hampshire Jews all over the map ahead of presidential primary |work=[[The Times of Israel]] |date=February 2, 2016 }}</ref> Pada April 2016, ia diundang oleh [[Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo]], ajudan Fransiskus, untuk berpartisipasi dalam konferensi ekonomi dan lingkungan Vatikan; Sanders sempat bertemu Fransiskus di sana.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-vatican.html |title=As Bernie Sanders Heads to Vatican, a Visit With Pope Francis Seems in Doubt |first=Jason |last=Horowitz |date=April 15, 2016 |website=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=April 17, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/51a3860bb14940608f9f6539bd441f4e/bernie-sanders-says-he-met-pope-francis |title=Pope: Sanders encounter sign of good manners, 'nothing more' |first=Ken |last=Thomas |date=April 16, 2016 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |accessdate=April 17, 2016 |archive-date=2016-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419001344/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/51a3860bb14940608f9f6539bd441f4e/bernie-sanders-says-he-met-pope-francis |dead-url=yes }}</ref>

* {{cite book|author=Bernie Sanders|chapter=Why Americans Should Take Back the Media|title=The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century|url=https://archive.org/details/futureofmediares0000unse|editor1=[[Robert W. McChesney|Robert McChesney]]|editor2=Russell Newman|editor3=[[Ben Scott (penasihat kebijakan)|Ben Scott]]|date=|publisher=[[Seven Stories Press]]|year=2005|isbn=978-1-58322-679-7|oclc=57574152}}

* {{cite book|title=Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance|url=https://archive.org/details/wherewegofromher0000bern|publisher=[[Gale (penerbit)|Gale]]|year=2018|isbn=978-1-432-86916-8|oclc=1126540640}}

* {{cite book |last=Rall |first=Ted |date=2016 |title=Bernie |url=https://archive.org/details/bernie0000rall |publisher=Hollowbrook Publishing |location=New York |isbn=978-1609806989}}

* {{cite journal |last=Rice |first=Tom W. |year=1985 |title=Who Votes for a Socialist Mayor?: The Case of Burlington, Vermont |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_polity_summer-1985_17_4/page/795 |journal=Polity |doi=10.2307/3234575 |issn=0032-3497 |jstor=3234575 |oclc=5546248357 |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=795–806}}

* {{cite book |last=Soifer |first=Steven |date=1991 |title=The Socialist Mayor: Bernard Sanders in Burlington, Vermont |url=https://archive.org/details/socialistmayorbe0000soif |publisher=Praeger |location=Westport, CN |isbn=978-0-89789-219-3 |lccn=90048954 |oclc=22491683 |ol=1887682M}}

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