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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to hold the liberal establishment’s feet to the fire come January, vowing to work toward making the political revolution a reality once the task of electing Hillary Clinton to the White House is accomplished.

“Was I shocked to find out that the DNC was partial toward Clinton? Not exactly. That’s something we knew from day one.”
—Sen. Bernie SandersIn an interview with the Washington Post published Monday, Sanders said he intends to use the “leverage” he accumulated during his historic primary bid to promote the very agenda that propelled him to win “22 states and 46 percent of the pledged delegates, 13.4 million votes…and a majority of the younger people, the future of the country.”

According to John Wagner at the Post, who conducted the interview with Sanders at his home in Vermont on Friday:

He named Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) as potential allies in this effort.

Sanders plans to use the Democratic Party platform—which he was instrumental in shaping and has called “the most progressive” in the party’s history—as a template, characterizing it as “more progressive than Clinton’s campaign agenda,” Wagner wrote. 

And he shunned the sort of centrist “compromise” that has many progressives wary of Clinton.

“It’s not good enough for me, or anybody, to say, ‘Well, look, Republicans control the House: From Day One, we’re going to have to compromise,'” Sanders said. “The Democratic Party, before they start compromising, has got to rally the American people around our ideas and make it clear that if Republicans do not go along with reasonable ideas to benefit the middle class and the working class, they are going to pay a very heavy political price.”

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