by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 10, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
How the Anti-Populists Stopped Bernie Sanders, by Thomas Frank Just a few short years ago we Americans knew what we were doing: making the world into one big likeness of ourselves. We had the experts; we knew how it was...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 8, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Bernie Sanders’s campaign is over, but his legacy is winning Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is over. And unlike his 2016 run, which surely counted as a kind of moral victory, his 2020 loss is a much more crushing and definitive defeat. But what...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 1, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 22, 2020 | Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Elizabeth Warren
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 4, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Column: Bernie Sanders isn’t going to destroy the Democratic Party. He just might save it After Bernie Sanders led the popular vote in the Iowa caucuses, the emails started trickling in. Alarmed Democrats, and excited Republicans, saw in Sanders a ghost that has...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 1, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump
Forget socialism: The threat in 2020 is Trump’s Stalinism Impeached president Donald Trump has learned a lot from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and for someone who has a personality more akin to that of Josef Stalin-the narcissism, paranoia, messiah complex...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 28, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Democracy
IF YOU LIKE SOCIALISM SO MUCH, WHY DON’T YOU MOVE TO VENEZUELA? We’re entering election season in the US of A, so it’s time to pollute the internet’s comments sections with fear mongering, bad arguments, strawmen, and knee-jerk reactions. Of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Noam Chomsky: “The Democrats abandoned the working class decades ago” Building on a friendship initiated in Sandinista Nicaragua of the 1980s, Wallace Shawn – a committed activist but someone who is best known as an accomplished dramatist and actor...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
The Differences Between Warren and Sanders Matter Read: Team Bernie isn’t fazed by the bros As a presidential candidate, Sanders has somewhat tempered his radicalism. When he talks about his political forerunners, he identifies more strongly with Franklin D....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
After Bernie Sanders’ landslide Nevada win, it’s time for Democrats to unite behind him | Nathan Robinson It was a landslide. Bernie Sanders had been expected to win the Nevada caucuses, but not like this. With just 4% of the vote in, news organizations...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
When Will Moderates Learn Their Lesson? If centrists can’t move past their doctrine and recognize when their candidates are unelectable, then how will Democrats ever beat Trump? The two major policy pitches for the Democratic nominee for president of the United...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Bernie Sanders’ plans may be expensive but inaction would cost much more | Robert Reich In Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, the former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg charged that the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ policy proposals would cost...
