“MAD PEOPLE make the best stuff,” Jon Grinspan, curator of political history at the Smithsonian, tells me on March 10, as voters in six states are going to the polls. Anti-Establishment candidates inspire more handmade paraphernalia, he explains, like tees, hats, and beer koozies. This was true for Bernie Sanders in 2016, and the offerings have expanded this time around. Especially now, there’s something by and for every kind of Berner out there, whether you’re a Grateful Dead fan, or feel the force of Baby Bernie Yoda, or just find Sanders rendered as a cactus kind of cute. One friend, feeling a sense of urgency to show her support for Sanders before voting in New York in April, bought a RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE T-shirt with the senator’s face on…
