Opinion: With Sanders the clear front-runner, it's time for Democrats to take the gloves off (via latimesopinion)
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Here’s where Sanders’ supporters interject to point out that markets haven’t been working so well on issues like healthcare and climate change, or for people at the lower end of the economic ladder. I’ll freely concede those points, but there are plenty of ways to address those problems short of having the federal government sweep in and spend trillions of dollars it does not have.
Sanders hasn’t made a secret of any of this stuff; after all, he brands himself a European-style democratic socialist. But for some reason, his rivals haven’t pressed him on what that means. Just how big does Sanders want to make the government? In what industries would private business have to compete with Washington? How many new regulatory burdens would Sanders impose?that he can actually deliver. His list puts “a chicken in every pot” to shame: Medicare for all. College for all.
One final note as an aside: Democrats have started to poke at some of the more, err, colorful elements of Sanders’ past, such as his
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