Bernie Sanders, this "socialist" from Vermont, who wants to save America

Special Envoy to Burlington (Vermont)

Snow almost covered the electoral panels planted in front of the houses. But even half buried in the blizzard that blows from Lake Champlain, we can still see on the placards one and the same first name: Bernie. In the small town of Burlington, the largest in the state of Vermont, the craze for Bernie Sanders is not new. Elected mayor of the city in 1981, re-elected three times, he occupied from 1991 the unique seat of Vermont in the House of Representatives, before being elected senator on these same lands in 2007. In this small northeastern state of the United States, near the Canadian border, the most singular character of the American presidential campaign is an almost consensual figure.

In the rest of the country, it remains much more controversial. The media describe him as a radical with Marxist tendencies. The Republicans denounce him as a dangerous socialist. The Democratic Party sees him as a mugger

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