This Is How Trump Would Destroy Bernie Sanders. Bernie is Trump's dream candidate.

The Bulwark ^ | January 27, 2020 | Richard North Patterson

[karpov]

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Working with Sanders’ own website, experts project an increase in spending far greater than that required by FDR’S New Deal or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society—roughly $60 trillion over 10 years.

Such an explosion in spending requires a massive increase in the federal deficit and/or significant tax increases on the middle class. Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics estimates that the taxes on the wealthy proposed by Sanders cover only between 40 percent and 45 percent of his programs. The rest would be paid, directly or indirectly, by Americans at large.

Imagine, if you will, Sanders trying to explain to ordinary citizens why all this is good for them. And then try to envision them rushing to the political barricades, en masse, to support it.

To the contrary, Sanders’ enthusiasm for doubling the size of government feeds the perception that he is driven more by an ideological passion for federal power than a targeted desire to help Americans most in need.

For example, Sanders proposes to provide free public college for every applicant, no matter how wealthy, and eradicate $16 trillion in student debt—irrespective of the borrower’s ability to repay. These proposals are not only gratuitously expensive but regressive: squandering taxpayer dollars on free college for the affluent threatens to short change programs for those who truly need them—whether working parents in search of adequate childcare, or unemployed workers who require job retraining.

For all but those impassioned with grand governmental designs, maximalist federal programs are not a good in themselves. And when excessive or ill designed, they diminish the credibility of those who propose them.

This applies doubly to a candidate who, heedless of impact, insists on calling himself a socialist. While less off-putting to young people, the label is anathema to the swing voters Democrats need.

[Boogieman]

“for more welcoming legal immigration policies”

You know, I’m not necessarily opposed to that.

But NEVER before we boot out all the illegals that are already here and secure the border. Anything else is bass-ackwards.

[trisham]

Bernie is old, unattractive and has a wife who complements him. I can’t imagine him as the democrat’s candidate. Even Biden is looking old and frail.

[DrewsMum]

That looks so real. Lol

[South Dakota]

I crossed over to vote for hillary in her run against obama.

I recognized the danger he was but hillary would probably have been just as bad

[From The Deer Stand]

You mean the “wealthy” Bernie aided by capitalism? It’s not fair that he has so much money and property. He needs to spread his wealth.