Centrists trying to understand what powers the Bernie Sanders surge need look no further than two terms of Obama. The right is empowered by its successes while the left is empowered by its own failures. The worse the left fails, the more problems it creates that urgently need to be solved.
There is a straight line between the counterterrorism failures of Carter against Iran and Clinton against Al Qaeda to the Obama years. And Obama’s failures against Iran and ISIS are likely to give birth to an even more extreme candidate who will make him seem moderate. It not only can happen, it will.
Bernie Sanders is running against an economic malaise that was created when the Clintons turned banks into social justice piggy banks for allied billionaires and the welfare class. Then Obama climbed into office on the heels of that economic disaster and vastly enriched Washington D.C.’s bedroom communities by spending unheard of amounts of money on government and his political allies.....
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