Stacey Walker speaks in Iowa.(Molly Crabapple)
In November and January, I traveled to Iowa and New Hampshire to support the Bernie Sanders campaign, the most human and transformative political campaign I’ve seen in my lifetime. These pictures were drawn from life. I scrawled them as I sat in squeezed in packed rallies full of farmworkers, or in school gymnasiums where Bernie paced, pointed, condemned the powerful, and assured people racked with medical debt, left living in their cars after a layoff that the ways they had suffered were part of a system whose profits were predicated on their despair.
I’ve drawn many places, at Israeli checkpoints, in Guantanamo Bay, in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. The places where that system comes down hardest. In drawing here, on the campaign trail, I saw that too, but something else. Among the Sanders supporters, there was a resolve to fight together, across differences—a solidarity deeper than hope.
Naomi Klein speaks in Iowa.(Molly Crabapple)
Bernie Sanders supporters in Iowa.(Molly Crabapple)
Bernie Sanders speaks in Iowa.(Molly Crabapple)
Bernie Sanders speaks in New Hampshire.(Molly Crabapple)
John Cusack speaks in New Hampshire.(Molly Crabapple)
Bernie Sanders speaks in New Hampshire.(Molly Crabapple)
Molly CrabappleMolly Crabapple is an artist and writer for outlets including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and The New York Review of Books. She is the author of Drawing Blood and National Book Award–nominated Brothers of the Gun, with Marwan Hisham. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.