“This year’s campaign is about a political revolution to not only elect the president but to transform this country,’’ said Bernie Sanders. Joan Vennochi (“Anger can only get you so far,’’ Opinion, Jan. 19) finds this merely a “seductive siren call’’ to the young and the left. She writes that Sanders’ “loud, staccato lecturing — underscored by dramatic finger-stabbing gestures [and] delivered in a Brooklyn accent’’ — will not play with the rest of the country.

Hasn’t Vennochi noticed that the rest of the country is also angry? Donald Trump has expressed his own anger, and the crowds have gone wild cheering him.

When Sanders says that he does not get speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, Vennochi calls that sniping. Citing a point made by Hillary Clinton, Vennochi notes that a Congress that voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act could hardly be open to Sanders’ “ ‘Medicare-for-all’ prescription for change.’’ Yet according to the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll in December 2015, 58 percent of Americans want universal health care.

Barack Obama told the country that “we are the change we have been waiting for.’’ Many of those who voted for him are disappointed in that promise, seeing him as too cautious, too conciliatory to Wall Street, and perhaps not angry enough to stand up to Big Pharma and the banks.

Vennochi praises Clinton for understanding “how hard it is to find the middle ground and bring about change,’’ but Americans are not looking for the middle ground. They believe in Sanders’ righteous anger. Anger may take Sanders farther than Vennochi thinks. It may even take him all the way to the White House.

Ann Madigan

Milton