Rendell, quondam Hillary supporter, says no Dem who embraces "socialism" or the AOC/Bernie agenda can beat Trump

He agrees we should drop fossil fuels but says it's impossible to have it completely done before 2045, and like Fox News he says we can't afford either Medicare for All or tuition free secondary education in publicly owned schools.

He urges making people over 50 eligible for Medicare and some sort of help with the growing problem of student debt, as well as better financing for Obamacare.

He's clearly not a Republican and he calls himself, accurately, a progressive, though not progressive enough to embrace the AOC/Bernie agenda and say it's just more progressivism.

Instead he rejects that agenda as well as socialism and "socialism".

He really needs to stop doing the GOP's work for it.

The GOP and conservatives always call any progressive reform, program, or proposal socialistic, socialism, communistic, Marxist, and Communist.

Screw it.

On You Tube the other day I watched an episode of the David Pakman show in which DP explains that, yeah, we can afford the entire AOC/Bernie agenda.

Unsurprisingly, a necessary part of any plan to finance all that requires raising taxes a lot, partly by reversing the Bush and Trump cuts and partly by adding more income tax brackets topping off at about 50% or more for income above ten million, if I recall correctly.

Pakman, by the way, calls himself a liberal and a progressive and rejects actual socialism, though he willingly calls the AOC/Bernie agenda socialistic or social democratic, in the same sense that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are socialistic or social democratic.