Yes, he did really say that. There is nothing wrong with enjoying retirement in your older years. I am sure the former VP has had an opportunity to earn a good government pension, and he should spend more time on the beach or in the woods, and maybe let a younger person take a stab at being the President.
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The 2020 Democratic nomination is now Sen. Bernie Sanders' to lose.
The independent from Vermont — who is running as a Democrat and often speaks about the ills not just of Republicans, but also of Democrats — handily won the Nevada Democratic caucuses.
And he did it by broadening his coalition beyond his base of young voters and progressives. Sanders won the popular vote in Iowa, the New Hampshire primary and now the Nevada caucuses. The man who calls himself a democratic socialist and has been seemingly running as an outsider all his life is now the inside man.
How the Holocaust shaped Bernie Sanders’s politics | The Times of Israel
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders thinks US President Donald Trump represents a unique threat to the body politic. The most powerful man in America, he argues, is a demagogue and a racist. He targets and oppresses racial and ethnic minorities. He stirs discord and division.
But it’s Trump’s hostility to immigrants that bothers Sanders with an acute resonance, he said. In a rare interview this week in which the Democratic presidential hopeful opened up about his personal story, he accused the president of trying to “demonize people because they were not born in this country.”
Opinion | Why Sanders Will Probably Win the Nomination – The New York Times
Successful presidential candidates are mythmakers. They don’t just tell a story. They tell a story that helps people make meaning out of the current moment; that divides people into heroes and villains; that names a central challenge and explains why they are the perfect person to meet it.
In 2016 Donald Trump told a successful myth: The coastal elites are greedy, stupid people who have mismanaged the country, undermined our values and changed the face of our society. This was not an original myth; it’s been around since at least the populist revolts of the 1890s. But it’s a powerful us vs. them worldview, which resonates with a lot of people.
Trump’s followers don’t merely believe that myth. They inhabit it. It shapes how they see the world, how they put people into this category or that category. Trump can get his facts wrong as long as he gets his myth right. He can commit a million scandals, but his followers don’t see them as long as they stay embedded within that myth.
Bernie Sanders is also telling a successful myth: The corporate and Wall Street elites are rapacious monsters who hoard the nation’s wealth and oppress working families. This is not an original myth, either. It’s been around since the class-conflict agitators of 1848. It is also a very compelling us vs. them worldview that resonates with a lot of people.
Difficult Times for Politicians of the 1990s.
These are difficult times for politicians of the 1990s to get ahead… 👴🏽
Simply said, the twenties aren’t the turn of the century anymore. Tough on-crime criminal justice policies that might have made sense two or three decades when crime was escalating and a serious concern of the public don’t make much sense in a world when crime is low and declining. People nowadays see the impacts of a tough-on crime world, the evil of mass incarceration state, not the crime that once was bad.
Socialism Unpopular Even As Sanders Rises In 2020 Race : NPR
The Political Class Doesnt Think Bernie Can Win.
The political class thought both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders couldn’t win … 🤔
But I think that fact alone makes the case for Bernie Sanders — Donald Trump very much did win the President. He appealed to his base, he got people excited about him by saying proactive things and not shying away from criticism. Americans are well settled into their base camps now, there are few swing voters, only voters to be mobilized to show up on election day. Candidates that create a buzz by saying new and unusual things and dominating the news cycle are stronger, they are able to take the social media by storm. Boring, centrist candidates can’t do that.
Do I think Bernie Sanders will be a particularly successful or good president? Probably not, he doesn’t have a strong relationship with the business community, and I doubt he can work across party lines in Congress. I don’t see him helping many candidates get elected down ticket, and his election may very well create a backlash that delivers congress into the hands of his Republicans in 2022. But he is a good match to Donald Trump. His style is that of Trump, he excites the base, he is pure. In an era when there is no swing voters, Bernie Sanders is the Democrats best hope for winning back the White House.