Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday why each is best placed to serve as the next commander in chief, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates flailed.

Bernie Sanders said he’s ready to lead because he voted against the 2003 war in Iraq (we’re in 2020, folks) and because he wants to spend more money on infrastructure (because another bridge in New Jersey will defeat new hypersonic weapons). On Iran, Sanders offered the platitude of seeking an international “coalition.” He would stop spending “trillions” of dollars on military spending. This new fiscal rectitude is notable from Sanders, seeing as he wants to spend tens of trillions of dollars transferring control over the U.S. economy and consumer choices from the private sector to the government?