Political revolutions, according to Bernie and the Donald

Washington

WHEN the Beatles recorded their song Revolution and released it as a single in 1968, John Lennon, who had written the lyrics ("You say you want a revolution, Well, you know, We all want to change the world"), explained that he was inspired by the political protests that were sweeping the streets and campuses of Western Europe and the United States at the time and that were becoming more violent by the day as young demonstrators were calling for overturning the political and economic system.

A young student at the University of Chicago, Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders, was organising student demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968 and taking the first steps in what would become a successful political career. In the same year, another young New Yorker, Donald Trump, was completing his business degree at the University of Pennsylvania and preparing to join his family's real estate company and turn it eventually into a billion-dollar business.