Red-baiting a key weapon in the war on the Sanders agenda
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By John Wojcik
The red-baiting of Sen. Bernie Sanders has been stepped up as we near the date of the important South Carolina primary election this coming weekend. "Liberal" pundits have accused him of everything from supporting "Marxist dictators" like Fidel Castro to singing the praises of chandeliers installed in the Moscow subways by the communist dictators of old. "You don't ever talk about the wonderful chandeliers in the Moscow subways when you have Stalin killing 30 million of his own people," Joe Scarborough declared on Morning Joe today. "With his praise of dictators, who does Bernie remind you of?" Joe's wife, Mika Brzezinski, then asked.

David Frum wrote in The Atlantic recently that Sanders was "a Marxist of the old school of dialectical materialism" for whom "class relations are foundational." (Heaven forbid that we bring the issue of class into an election!)

MSNBC's Chris Matthews perhaps topped everyone when he suggested that had "Castro," the object of Sanders' alleged praise, "won," we would have seen "executions in Central Park."

Stephanie Ruhl, also of MSNBC, hosted Diamond Resorts CEO Stephen Cloobeck, a major Democratic Party fundraiser, who said on her show, Sanders is an "anarchist who would love to burn down the United States."

In a Freudian slip of the tongue...

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