Bernie Sanders Just Gave Joe Biden a Very Expensive Wish List
Is Bernie Sanders' mouth writing checks that Joe Biden's administration won't be able to cash?
Is Bernie Sanders' mouth writing checks that Joe Biden's administration won't be able to cash?
An expansive new batch of policy proposals shows Biden moving toward a more expensive, more intrusive policy agenda.
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"I have concluded that this battle for the Democratic nomination will not be successful," Sanders told supporters in a livestreamed address on Wednesday morning.
Politicians of both major parties are using COVID-19 to advance their pre-existing policy agendas.
While the rest of the country was hunkering down against coronavirus, Democrats have very nearly chosen their presidential nominee.
Joe Biden rightly noted that Medicare for All "would not solve the problem" posed by the coronavirus.
Coronavirus fears prompted organizers to drop the live audience, which was just as well.
Emergency measures can easily become routine policy.
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A slew of decisive primary victories expand the former vice president's lead in the Democratic primary.
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Michael Bloomberg spent at least $500 million in his bid for a Super Tuesday blitz. He came away with...American Samoa.
It's a two-man race and the Delaware Democrat is a comeback kid.
The pundits and newspapers pushed Warren, Klobuchar, and Buttigieg, but Super Tuesday voters just wanted boring old Biden and Bernie.
Deciding which Democratic front-runner is the lesser of two evils is not easy.
What would Sanders' vision of democratic socialism mean for the country?
What would Sanders' vision of democratic socialism mean for the country?
Unraveling panic, policy, and bad metaphors on the Reason Roundtable podcast
Klobuchar is a cop too, though it took a little longer for her record to catch up with her.
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Biden's win in South Carolina gives his campaign new life, increases the likelihood of a brokered convention in Milwaukee, and ends Tom Steyer's campaign.
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Medicare for All would cost far, far more than he says.
But Sanders is also right that America has made some terrible foreign policy mistakes in the past.
The former vice president's accusations require a couple of footnotes.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders correctly diagnose the problem, but fail to provide an adequate solution.
The Midwestern moderate isn't alone is fretting about the radicalism of the current Democratic front-runner.
As Sanders steamrolls toward the Democratic nomination, the Reason Roundtable podcast dissects the panic attacks among MSNBC anchors, conservative commie-haters, and the bipartisan establishment elite.
The real resistance is made up of those who refuse to be governed by any of the wannabe rulers.
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Are Democrats about to nominate a socialist for president?
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Don't believe those who tell you that Sanders is some sort of centrist.
Bloomberg says "We're not going to throw out capitalism"; Sanders isn't so sure.
"Stop and frisk" policies are brought into the crosshairs right away.
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Instead of destroying the political gatekeepers, we've merely handed the keys to the populists.
Sanders wins New Hampshire while Michael Bloomberg rockets into second place. Plus: Bill Barr's DOJ, Trump's budget, and more.
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Federal outlays per person have increased $1,441 since 2016, to a grand total of $14,652 per person.
Like Trump before him, Sanders is using establishment disunity to mount an insurgent campaign.
It may be better only in so far as it is much more likely to get invalidated by the courts.