Robert Reich’s backing isn’t a big surprise, but still.

by Dave Jamieson

Bernie Sanders reeled in the endorsement of a prominent cabinet official from the Clinton years on Friday.

Robert Reich, who served as Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor, announced on Twitter that he was throwing his support behind the Vermont independent senator rather than Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

I endorse Bernie Sanders for president of the United States. He’s leading a movement to reclaim America for the many, not the few.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 27, 2016

In a Facebook post explaining the decision, Reich said Sanders was leading a “political mobilization” that would “get the nation back from the moneyed interests” that control the political system.

I endorse Bernie Sanders for President of the United States. He’s leading a movement to reclaim America for the many, not the few. And such a political mobilization – a “political revolution,” as he puts it — is the only means by which we can get the nation back from the moneyed interests that now control so much of our economy and democracy.

This extraordinary concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top imperils all else – our economy, our democracy, the revival of the American middle class, the prospects for the poor and for people of color, the necessity of slowing and reversing climate change, and a sensible foreign policy not influenced by the “military-industrial complex,” as President Dwight Eisenhower once called it. It is the fundamental prerequisite: We have little hope of achieving positive change on any front unless the American people are once again in control.

I have the deepest respect and admiration for Hillary Clinton, and if she wins the Democratic primary I’ll work my heart out to help her become president. But I believe Bernie Sanders is the agent of change this nation so desperately needs.

Reich is now a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a prolific author of lefty economic policy books, most recently Saving Capitalism. He also co-created the popular documentary “Inequality for All.”

Source: Huff Post