Opinion: Bernie Sanders and his allies say the COVID-19 crisis shows the urgency of their agenda. Here’s why they’re wrong.
and co-host of the Bloggingheads.tv show “The DMZTo America’s democratic socialists, the coronavirus pandemic means one glaringly obvious thing: America doesn’t have enough democratic socialism.
Yet that was not clear to primary voters in Arizona, Florida and Illinois, who voted to bury Bernie’s revolution in overwhelming numbers in the middle of a pandemic. Some democratic socialists see the Republicans’ surprisingly eager embrace of massive government stimulus as a sign that the winds have shifted in their favor. On Thursday, Sanders’ press secretarysaid in a campaign video that “people who have long opposed Bernie’s ‘Medicare for All’ plan and his New Deal-style social programs now support a suite of solutions to the corona crisis which could accurately be described as ‘socialist.
For Republicans to sing such a different tune now is a tacit admission that, 11 years ago, they were wrong. In other words, Obama’s stimulus—which some on the left, such as The Week’s
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