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Bernie Sanders’s refusal to fire violent pro-gulag communist on staff speaks volumes

Bernie Sanders has spent years convincing voters that his Soviet honeymoon, his support for the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, his admiration for Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez were all a misunderstanding. See, it was Denmark, Danish-style socialism he wants for America, not a second Venezuela. He was really quite reasonable in intentions all along.

It was exposed as garbage the other day, when James O’Keefe released an undercover video of a top-line paid Iowa staffer, Kyle Jurek, praising gulags, re-education camps, burning cities, beaten cops, and killing anyone who resists the “revolution” as the plan all along. Worse still, he said the Bernie campaign was loaded with such people and Bernie’s moderate claims was a mask. So much for Bernie’s rebranding bid.

Ordinarily, that would be a firing offense. The guy just undercut Sanders’ carefully cultivated public relations persona to win voters and made Sanders look like Mao recrudescent, Stalin reborn, and Pol Pot’s ghost, something worse actually, than even most suspicious Republicans have ever came up with.

Sanders’ response?

Nothing. No firing. No denunciation of all the sick plans and praise for the world’s most odious dictators. […]

Read the full story from American Thinker


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