Sanderista

plural Sanderistas · alternative Sandernista

1. UScolloquialgovernmentA supporter of Bernie Sanders or his political philosophy.

   7/83 Space Wars; Micronesia vs. nukes; Green Party & Sanderistas; also Spring Books Pt. 2

   1983, WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Non-violent Action, volume 19, Workshop in Nonviolence Institute, page 38

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   A special approach of the Sanderista coalition has been to mobilize this complex of popular groups into an independent political force.

   1986, Places, volume 3, page 38

   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.

   2012, Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism, page 152

   Call it what you will—a Sanderista cult, a brand, a following—Vermonters responded to Sanders.

   2015, Harry Jaffe, Why Bernie Sanders Matters

   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."

   2015, Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin, page 223

   Synonyms: Berner, Bernista