Matt Taibbi
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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The prospect of him becoming the nominee was a really interesting thought experiment for the Democrats in 2016, because it's quite possible that he would have done better than Hillary Clinton at the time.
The electorate was deeply anti-establishment.
Hillary was running as a political insider, which was very unpopular.
And the things that Sanders was promoting...
There was a lot of popularity to a lot of the things that he was calling for, including abolishing student debt.
Medicare for all is actually popular with a lot of Democrats.
The problem with this new crew of DSA candidates, and I know they're technically under the same tent as Bernie Sanders, but they're a very different group of people.
And I know this, among other things, you know, I studied at a Soviet college.
I'm old enough to have gone to university in the Soviet Union.
I'm very familiar with this personality type.
I took scientific communism in college.
And so I know the difference between the real thing and what Bernie was in 2016, which, you know, he was running as a traditional sort of FDR Democrat.
He grew up in a poor neighborhood with great reverence for the Democratic Party.
clearly loves his home state of Vermont.
That is not the vibe with this crew that uses terms like seize the means of production very freely.
And I just don't think, well, we'll see what happens when they get exposed to the general electorate.
I think the people are, there's going to be a rebuke there, but it'll be interesting to see how the party reacts to that.
Because they don't know, Megan, I mean, I wrote a book about Eric Garner, the murder of Eric Garner, the police murder.
And as a result of that, in doing the research, I had to spend roughly two years on the street talking to people in that very spot.
Now, one of the things that happened after Eric Garner was killed is that
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