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9. Sanders as been wrong a lot too. His most glaring error is thinking...
Tue Mar 3, 2020, 11:54 AM
Mar 2020

that this country will elect a socialist. That naivete is stunning. It won't happen—especially now when there is no economic downturn.

There's also is decades of calling himself just a plain socialist ten switching to "democratic socialist" in the Nordic model when he decided to use the Democratic Part to run for president. That was a mistake in two ways. First there is a functioning Democratic Socialist Party in this country, and second, the Nordic countries are capitalist, social democracies. He should've re-labeled himself a social democrat, leaving out the toxic word "socialist".

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