As Congressional Democrats on Wednesday took a sharp U-turn from their previous opposition to President Barack Obama's corporate-friendly trade agenda, presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) reiterated his disdain for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and demanded that the era of "corporate greed must end."

In an op-ed on Wednesday, the Democratic candidate hit on a litany of items that have become standard fodder for his campaign speeches: tax reform, overturning Citizens United, raising the minimum wage, infrastructure spending, and pay equipty for women workers, among others.

"The reality of the American economy," Sanders says, is that "millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages and median family income is almost $5,000 less than it was in 1999. Meanwhile, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations are doing phenomenally well."

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Sanders—who has repeatedly stated that his presidential bid is not about him as an individual, but rather a call for "a mass movement"—repeated on Wednesday that "we have got to demand" these changes.

"It is time to say loudly and clearly that corporate greed and the war against the American middle class must end," he concluded. "Enough is enough!"

The full text of his column is below: