George Will said just now on MSNBC that Bernie would be McGovern 2.0, and I think he's right.
Single payor is a bad idea and won't sell, anyway, nor will the rest of Bernie's signature, social democratic, "socialist" agenda so beloved of smart and both socially and economically well-off college kids who don't want to pay off their government guaranteed college loans.
He's an anti-Democratic Party candidate for the anti-Democratic Party left.
He's the Trumpist of the left, but far more sincere than The Duce in his moral disgust with the system, the establishment, the DC "swamp," our very form of government, and capitalism, itself.
His positions - anyway, his verbal positions - on trade and on foreign policy are not so different from the America First-ism of the Buchananite Trumpists.
And his views on global warming and global redistribution of wealth are way too close to those of that anti-capitalist hyper-liberal and vegetarian, utilitarian globo-phony, Peter Singer.
The truth is the outsider left who support him will tell you straight out they would rather Bernie and people like them take over the party and lose than see the Democrats win as a party of progressive Democrats, committed to our republic and to democratic capitalism.
They are as ideologically committed as the radical wingnuts of the right who dominate the House and have dominated the GOP for decades.
And them controlling the Democrats would be as bad for the country as the wingnuts controlling the GOP has been.
Bernie Sanders Says He’ll Run For Re-election As An Independent
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