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Victor Davis Hanson Emasculates Bernie Sanders

February 24, 2020 By Debbie Young

Senator Bernard Sanders (I-Vermont) (left), Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, joined Dr. Robert A. Petzel, Under Secretary for Health, in highlighting how VA is bridging health care and information technology. (Photo courtesy of VA)

Does it not strike you as odd that not one of Bernie Sanders’s rivals on the debate stage really hit the Vermont Socialist where he is most vulnerable?

Government Mandated Redistribution

Victor Davis Hanson does and lists a few of Bernie’s more glaring faults:

  • Bernie’s reprehensible past empathy for the genocidal Soviet Union,
  • Bernie’s praise of communist dictatorships such as those in Nicaragua and Cuba.
  • Bernie calls for wealth taxes, 90 percent tax rates, wars against billionaires, a foreign policy far to the left of Barack Obama’s and socialization of the medical system.
  • Bernie promises to end fracking, implement the radical Green New Deal, institute a 70-90 percent top income tax rate along with a wealth tax, reparations, an open border and blanket amnesties, and Medicare for all.
  • Bernie calls for wealth taxes, 90 percent tax rates, wars against billionaires, a foreign policy far to the left of Barack Obama’s and socialization of the medical system.

“The embarrassing paradox of a die-hard socialist redistributionist eager to cash in on his political career—to the extent of setting up his wife as an in-house, well-paid consultant (with her past failed career as wheeler-dealer small college president who bankrupted her institution and for a while won the attention of the FBI), while becoming a millionaire with three homes,” continues Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness.

Mention that, as Bloomberg did in the recent debate, and Bernie becomes livid, in a fashion that appears dangerous for a septuagenarian who recently survived a heart attack.

Bernie’s Predictable Socialist Bromides 

He cannot take criticism, VDH pints out. When he is criticized, the Senator becomes gruff and animated.

And he is a different sort of septuagenarian than is Trump, who has a sense of humor and can be self-deprecating. Get-off-my-grass Bernie, like most true-believers and fellow travelers of mandated government redistribution, is serious 24/7.

He never really addresses criticism, and his fallback position on any issue is always another predictable socialist bromide, a frown and two frail arms flailing in the air.

Note that Trump was not only more consistent with his party’s values than Sanders, but more representative of the views of American voters in general.

One might object that Trump is crude and off-putting and thus cancels out the appeal of his record. But is Bernie pleasant and measured?

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Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
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