The Nation, venerable weekly magazine published in New York, regularly carries a column by Eric Alterman. The April 15 column mentions that Bernie Sanders was a presidential elector candidate for the Socialist Workers Party in 1980, in Vermont. Although this had not been a complete secret, it is rare that this fact has been mentioned in a publication with wide readership. The general thrust of the column is that voters who want the Democratic Party to win the presidential election of 2020 should not support making Sanders the Democratic nominee. Alterman describes the Socialist Workers Party in 1980 as “Trotskyist” and says in 1980 “it favored the abolition of the U.S. military budget and proclaimed itself in solidarity with both Cuba and Iran at a time when the latter held over 52 Americans hostage.”
When did ALL of the current gang of top Donkeys become RED communists ???
before/during/after the Vietnam War ???
That only makes me like him more, so… Actually, it doesn’t, since he obviously doesn’t support leftist third-parties anymore.
See also http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/downloads/Sanders_1989_flyer.pdf. This article was originally published in The Guardian (the New York radical weekly, not the British liberal newspaper) on September 27, 1989.
I wonder if David Duke will ever be back in fashion?
Outside of Ron Paul, Sanders is the prominent major party candidate most tied to third parties. And yes, I know President Trump briefly joined the Reform Party in 1999, but he didn’t really learn much or get much involved in the party.
Gee – was Trotsky a killer communist with Lenin in Russia/USSR ???
I wonder what is worse… Bernie being a former member of the Socialist Workers Party or being a citizen of Israel as well as the US? No conflict of interest there!
IS BS also a communist citizen of RED Russia and RED China ???
— or just one more RED communist Citizen of the Universe ???
SUPER-easy to be a RED communist parasite – evil deadly jealous of any body having above average assets / incomes / net worths.
How many human DEAD due to RED communism since 1914 — wars, civil wars, purges ???
100 MILLION ???
How many enslaved ??? BILLIONS ???
This is a shock to no one. Sanders has always been a communist.
Trump ran for the Reform Party nomination in 2000.