Why the ‘socialist’ label sticks to Democrats – By Rick Newman (Yahoo Finance) / Nov 4 2021
Who’s the loudest Democrat?
It’s not President Joe Biden, despite the “bully pulpit” he commands as president. Biden merits daily news coverage, befitting his position, but he’s not especially bombastic or combative.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is much noisier, with a potent political machine attacking anybody opposed to his high tax, anti-corporate agenda. Sanders’ protégé in the House, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, may have more star power than any other elected Democrat. Other “progressive” Democrats have blocked a bipartisan infrastructure bill and dragged Biden in their direction on other issues.
Biden won the presidency last year by running as a centrist who dispelled the “socialist” label President Trump and other Republicans tried to pin on him. Moderate and independent voters put Biden over the top. But 10 months into Biden’s presidency, Sanders and his band of leftists have sewn fresh concern in voters’ minds about the party’s big-government drift, which could directly threaten its hold on power.
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