Don’t let Democrats downplay Bernie Sanders’s radicalism

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It looks increasingly likely that Democrats will march into the 2020 election under the Red Flag.

After Sen. Bernie Sanders’s landslide win in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, the elderly socialist’s front-runner status is cemented. This spells electoral nightmare for the party, so it’s perfectly reasonable that the Democratic establishment and liberal media are up in arms over the Vermont independent’s remarkable rise. But their actual responses are far from reasonable and range from emotionally unhinged to intellectually dishonest.

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