How John Adams Predicted Bernie Sanders and His Acolytes

By William Sullivan

There is something incredibly curious about the Bernie Sanders’s faithful.  On the one hand, we’re told that they’re incredibly well-educated.  Indeed, academia and its young charges support him more than other candidates, some say.  One might be inclined to think that this implies some sort of intellectual ballast to Sanders’ fiscal approach.  Surely, such learned scholars wouldn’t just flock to the guy without having done extensive research, and after having earned a broad foundation of knowledge about economics through hours, days, or perhaps years of diligent study.  Then, you see the Sanders campaign tweet something like this:

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