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Feb 3, 2020 · Published Feb 03, 2020 at 3:56 PM EST. By Jason Lemon. Weekend Editor. FOLLOW. As Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has surged in the polls, President Donald Trump has begun to...
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Aug 27, 2015 · Sen. Bernie Sanders in his office in 1981, shortly after becoming mayor of Burlington, Vt. He once said his tenure as a socialist mayor is evidence people are willing to accept radical change...
- He's a democratic socialist - Sanders is a self-described "democratic socialist", but in his long political career he became comfortable with just "socialist" ("I am a socialist and everyone knows it," he once said, reports the Washington Post.)
- Climate change is real - Sanders proposes a $16.3tn (£12.5tn) "Green New Deal" that he says would create 20 million jobs and pay for itself over 15 years, including through $3tn of taxes on oil companies.
- College should be free - "Education must be an economic right for all, not a privilege for the few," Sanders wrote in an opinion piece last year. His $2.2tn plan to make college free is, like much of his policy platform, the most far-reaching in the Democratic field.
- Background checks on gun ownership - "The world has changed, and my views have changed," Sanders said at this year's New Hampshire presidential debate.
Jul 8, 2015 · Dan Roberts in Washington. Wed 8 Jul 2015 08.35 EDT. Since the days of Joe McCarthy’s communist witch-hunts, American politics has rarely seen a “red scare” to match that greeting the surging...
Feb 18, 2020 · "Socialist Workers Party leader Bernie Sanders supported Ayatollah Khomeini against the US, condemned president Carter for imperialism, and accused the hostages of being CIA spies. "Is this...
Feb 27, 2019 · February 27, 2019. When The New York Times ’ popular podcast The Daily broadcast an episode about the field of Democratic presidential candidates, the political reporter Alex Burns...
Feb 23, 2016 · Bernie Sanders is called many things: independent, progressive, socialist, democratic socialist, social democrat, communist, Intrepid, the Vermont Bonecrusher, etc. But what about just plain,...
