Bernie Sanders
May 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In a Bernie Sanders flashback, Brooke Singman reported for Fox News in 2020: “Sanders once defended Mao-era China by claiming it had democracy “on the local level,” as he argued the U.S. should provide aid to the country while cutting off other non-democratic nations.” That was Sanders in 1971. This is Sanders in 2026. Jack Butler writes here in the Wall Street Journal Free Expression newsletter this morning and here
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April 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Bernie Sanders thinks the time is ripe for the expropriation of the wealth of the wealthy from those who have earned it. Never mind — he will put it to use in the service of all things bright and beautiful. What could go wrong? Something tells me that Sanders’s argument hasn’t been put to the test of analytical rigor. In the second paragraph of his Guaridan column plugging this year’s
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March 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Through the work of Pirate Wires we have drawn attention to the progress of the possible billionaire tax that threatens to make its way on to the ballot in California. It is responsible for the escape of some megasuccessful citizens from the state. In following the progress of the ballot initiative, my thought has been that what happens in Californian doesn’t stay in California. Riley Nork writes in this morning’s
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April 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The pronoun police signal our life in the coming dystopia. Orwell! thou shouldst be living in this hour… In the video below Anderson Cooper commits a dystopian faux pas at CNN’s townhall with Bernie Sanders this past Wednesday evening. An attendee at CNN's Bernie Sanders town hall corrects Anderson Cooper on pronouns: pic.twitter.com/GRhkVXst6o — Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 10, 2025 Fortunately, we missed the show. Robby Soave extracts the,
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March 24, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Socialist U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), of all people, had something positive to say about Pres. Donald Trump’s border policies. It was a real “man bites dog” moment. The occasion was yesterday’s appearance by Sanders on ABC News’ This Week Sunday morning public affairs show. It went something like this, Question: Is there anything that you think Trump has done right? SANDERS: Yeah. I mean, I think cracking down on
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January 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Senator Bernie Sanders has given us a historic moment of Senate cross-examination in the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. confirmation hearing. Sanders posed a question that will rank up there in the annals of Senate history with the question attorney Joseph Welch posed to Joe McCarthy in the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954: “Have you no sense of decency?” Sanders nailed RFK with the question: “Are you supportive of these onesies?” He
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May 15, 2022 — Steven Hayward
So I pull up Fox News to find an opinion article titled, “It’s Time for Medicare for All.” And I notice the byline of the purported author: “Sen. Bernie Sanders.” To be sure, the article that follows does sound quite a lot like the real Bernie Sanders, the Socialist Democrat from Vermont. But it’s hard to imagine the real Bernie Sanders willingly appearing at Fox News. Though it is hard
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April 14, 2022 — John Hinderaker
This is the third in a series of essays by David Horowitz on the progressive mind. The first essay is Understanding the Progressive Mind, the second is Progressivism as Criminal Enterprise. Bernie Sanders is the founder of the Progressive Caucus and most popular figure in the Democrat Party. He is also the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and therefore a key player in determining how Washington decides to spend
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October 12, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
Back in 2009-10, when the Democrats controlled 59-60 Senate seats, they were pleased as punch to pass a $1 trillion stimulus package and the “camel” known as Obamacare. Sure, some Dems wished for even more stimulus money and the “horse” of single-payer health insurance. But there was no serious resistance to settling for less and few public complaints about not getting more. Twelve years later, with the Dems controllingly only
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October 2, 2021 — John Hinderaker
It has been a while since we have checked in on the socialist disaster of Venezuela. For a while it looked as though Maduro’s criminal gang might be driven from office, but the threat has passed and instead, millions of Venezuelans have simply left. Now that country’s socialist government has announced that it is devaluing its currency by (if my arithmetic is correct) one million times: Venezuela on Friday launched
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August 4, 2021 — Paul Mirengoff
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “squad” won’t be adding a member from Ohio this year. Last night, in a special election in Ohio’s 11th congressional district, the “establishment” Democrat, Shontel Brown, defeated far-leftist Nina Turner. The margin was around seven points (51-44) when AP called the race for Brown. Turner is a nationally-known figure. Bernie Sanders is a fan, as is Ocasio-Cortez. In fact, Turner served as Sanders’ “chief surrogate” during his presidential
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April 9, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Yesterday was a good day for the U.S. stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed by 3.4 percent and the S&P index by 3.2. The big day on Wall Street coincided with Bernie Sanders’s announcement that he is withdrawing from the presidential race. The fact that Sanders won’t be president is fabulous news for the U.S. economy. However, we have known for about a month that Sanders had no
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April 8, 2020 — Scott Johnson
As I write, Bernie Sanders has announced the suspension of his presidential campaign. The rise of this old-fashioned Comsymp to the ranks of the thought leaders of the Democratic Party has been most illuminating. He is a vile socialist hater of the Corbynite stripe, though (or and thus) he represents the beating heart of the party. Unlike so many of his younger colleagues, he can’t hide it. His long record
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March 18, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
There is evidence that young voters have started to outgrow Bernie Sanders. Allysia Finley of The Wall Street Journal presents it in this piece. It’s true that young voters still prefer Sanders to Joe Biden. But Sanders’s margins are down from 2016 and so is youth turnout in relative terms: Mr. Sanders won 74% of those under 30 in last week’s Michigan primary, according to exit polls. But that was
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March 18, 2020 — Scott Johnson
It’s good to see Bernie Sanders’s “revolution” crushed, even if it’s by a sympathetic escapee from Madam Tussauds who doesn’t have his heart in it. Of course I’m talking about Joe Biden. His motto ought to be the skin is too damn tight. As it is, his motto seems to be: no enemies to the left. It is the motto that served Alexander Kerensky so poorly in connection with the
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March 17, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Not long ago, the Democratic primaries scheduled for tonight looked like big deals. Few were worried about the coronavirus and it wasn’t clear whom the Democrats would nominate. Now, the Democratic primaries deserve brief mention, at the most. I will briefly mention them. There are three that haven’t been postponed — Florida, Illinois, and Arizona. In Arizona, they are still voting. In Florida, Joe Biden has won big, as expected.
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March 15, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders debated tonight on CNN. The opening topic was, of course, the Wuhan coronavirus. Biden began by presenting a list of ideas for dealing with the pandemic. Sanders agreed with Biden’s ideas, but insisted that we need to address underlying problems in our health care system and economy that contribute to our vulnerability. In other words, though Sanders didn’t utter them, we need socialism. Biden countered
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