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Is Bernie Sanders the Barry Goldwater of the left?

21 April 2020

6:09 AM

21 April 2020

6:09 AM

Forgive the analogy that follows. Is Bernie Sanders the Barry Goldwater of the left? Has Sanders, to echo the words of George Will on Goldwater, lost two primary campaigns but won the future?

What reminds us of Goldwater is the clarity of Sanders’s proposals and the force with which he expressed them.

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