For most of his 29 years in Congress, Bernie Sanders was mainly a left-wing gadfly, a relentless critic of the bipartisan Cold War consensus and a defender of regimes that resisted U. Since then, Sanders has evolved. He wants the United States to engage in the outside world, but with far less recourse to military force.
He backed the war in Afghanistan through most of the Obama administration, but concluded that it was a mistake to let it continue so long. One pillar of the Sanders Doctrine sounds traditional, a return to a bedrock principle that both parties shared before the rise of Donald Trump.
He wants to end uncritical U. If Sanders wins the nomination, Trump and other Republicans will accuse him, accurately, of being a socialist. But in other ways, Sanders would bring surprising continuity. Like Trump, he would disengage U. Like Trump, he says he would be quick to use tariffs as a weapon in trade wars.
And the Sanders presidency would be the third in a row in which a president deliberately sets out to downsize U. If that day comes, romantics will cross their fingers and pray that President Sanders succeeds. Cynics will cover their eyes and wait for him to collide with reality in the Middle East and other places where the balm of human solidarity is too often hard to find. Former Hoquiam Mayor Jasmine Dickhoff has been named the property and marketingβ¦.
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