Bernie: Dems Must Be More Than Just Anti-Trump!

Sen. Bernie Sanders' televised town hall on economic inequality drew about 1.7 million live viewers during an online broadcast Monday night.

The panel-discussion-style event, called "Inequality in America: The Rise of Oligarchy and Collapse of the Middle Class," exceeded the viewership of Sanders' first live town hall on single-payer health care in January.

The broadcast provided the Vermont independent with an opportunity to expand his new alternative media revue beyond "Medicare for all" to the broader issue of economic inequality, which he maintains that commercial media outlets frequently ignore