Will Bernie Sanders Have the Last Laugh?

He lost the nomination race but has won by pushing Biden and the Democrats far to the left.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden (left) greets Sen. Bernie Sanders as they take the stage for the seventh Democratic 2020 presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, January 14, 2020.

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A year ago, Bernie Sanders was powering toward a victory in the New Hampshire primary and confident he would take the nomination that Hillary Clinton had denied him in 2016.

Then establishment Democrats decided that if Sanders were the nominee, his radical reputation would cost him the election to Donald Trump.

John Fund

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John Fund

John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.

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