Matt Taibbi Is Going Full Bernie Bro...On Bernie Sanders?

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53. Sorry, you and Sanders are on a fool's errand.

Most Americas want those things in the abstract but still won't elect a socialist. And let's face it, a democratic socialist is still a socialist.

It amazes me that a nearly 80-year-old man who has lived in this country all his life seems to have forgotten that his generation and the two following, boomers and genXers, all heavy voters, were schooled for years to fear socialism/communism, the iron curtain, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Red China, failed communist collectives, the Cuban missile crisis, etc.—and many millions of voters still hold those views. How does he not know that?

Sanders has got to be smarter—although it's too late for him now. Neither FDR nor LBJ ran on their New Deal or Great Society programs. They got elected first then initiated their programs. And they never said they were socialists.