Last year, women who supported progressive Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders were admonished for doing so by his female rival's surrogates. “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” former secretary of state Madeleine Albright famously told a crowd while standing alongside then-candidate Hillary Clinton and feminist icon Gloria Steinem.
Now, nearly a year after Clinton's loss to you-know-who, the coast appears clear for female Sanders supporters — so much so that the women behind the post-inauguration Women's March on Washington have asked Sanders to give an opening night speech at their convention event in Detroit later this month.
One of the organizers of the Women's Convention tells the Free Press that Sanders is the right choice because he's "one of the most powerful U.S. senators ... on progressive issues, women’s issues, mobilizing millennials.”
Many women embraced the news, which broke Thursday morning.…