Bernie’s organizational independence came from lacking any party machine to rely on

Evidence

Precisely because Bernie has never been able to rely on a party machinery, he has built up an organization of his own. He might run on Democratic platforms and take part in their primaries, but his organizational resources do not depend on big money donors and DNC personnel. It was long said that Bernie would suffer from the absence of a sustainable party superstructure in the United States. Corbyn, in turn, managed to infiltrate an already existing party and colonize it for his own purposes. But this colonization was never complete, and the rebel elements were never expelled. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 322

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• XREF: connects to: A Bernie-style campaign could aim to build lasting infrastructure beyond the election — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 325