Bernie Sanders doubled down on his DemocraticSocialism approach to politics as the best way to address income inequality.
John Fritze, Aamer Madhani and Nicholas WuWASHINGTON – As some Democratic presidential candidates are pushing back on blistering criticism from President Donald Trump that their party has become"socialist," Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday doubled down on his embrace of the label.
"Over 80 years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped create a government that made transformative progress in protecting the needs of working families," Sanders said."Today, in the second decade of the 21st century, we must take up the unfinished business of the New Deal and carry it to completion." "I fundamentally disagree that we should do away with the democratic, regulated capitalism that has guided this country for over 200 years," said former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democat who is also seeking the presidential nomination."This position is shared by many of my Democratic colleagues, but for some reason, our party has been hesitant to express their opposition to democratic socialism.
President Donald Trump speaks at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Tuesday, June 11, 2019.During the 2016 Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton sought to use the S-word against Sanders, indicating she had heard from party officials who were"concerned" about the his policies. Clinton, who ran as a centrist, won the nomination, but it was Sanders who fired up much of the Democratic base.“I have faced and overcome these attacks for decades,” Sanders said.
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