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Michael Kruse: One morning last month in Burlington, Vermont, at the law office of John Franco, one of Bernie Sanders' best friends since the 1970s, Franco talked to me at length about Sanders' commitment and his consistency and his charisma. Even at the beginning of Sanders' career, he said, four decades before he started packing arenas in college towns and liberal havens as a renegade 73-year-old self-described socialist taking on Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Democratic Party establishment, "people didn't want him to stop talking." He talked about how Sanders "completely changed the political culture" in Vermont. He talked about how Sanders' surprising current…
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