Sanderista

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

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

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.

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

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."