… Whatever you think about Sanders — whether you think he’s an anti-establishment voice for change who promises to help the ignored and repressed, or an ideological demagogue who failed to understand the nature of the Soviet and Cuban communist regimes — there should be little doubt that the Vermont senator is a controversial, even divisive, figure. …
So, instead of a November matchup between Trump and Sanders being “about” the man currently in the White House — about his vulgarity, his profanity, his lies, his efforts to undermine key institutions (like the FBI, the CIA and a free press), his efforts to undercut the power of Congress and his anger and divisiveness — suddenly a 2020 general election becomes as much “about” Bernie Sanders as it is “about” Donald Trump. CONT.
Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call