if you're shoving the communism question into the "almost" exception, sure. I would be even Bernie would not endorse some of his old positions and beliefs on that issue.
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Replying to @jonathanchait @HeerJeet
I don't think it is strange to put it into that category, unless there are statements where Bernie forthrightly endorsed communism as an economic and political model.
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If he merely praised communist regimes -- suggesting that they were preferable to the available alternatives -- than that seems banal for a US politician (and in certain cases, likely still defensible).
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Liberal Democrats praise and defend authoritarian governments -- on the grounds that their most viable opponents are worse -- all the time.
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Replying to @EricLevitz @HeerJeet
have you seen the videos? (I also wonder if more might be coming.)
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Replying to @jonathanchait @HeerJeet
I don't think I've seen all of them, no. Anyhow, not saying he didn't have egregiously bad communism takes (he certain;y endorsed some wild positions back in the day, and did have that affiliation with a Trotskyist Party).
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But I think some of his Cold War heresies (like support for the Sandinistas) are commendable, and haven't encountered anything that struck me as having aged more poorly than various pieces of bipartisan conventional wisdom that he presciently contested.
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Replying to @EricLevitz @HeerJeet
this seems more in support of the proposition that Bernie has grown out of some of his craziest old beliefs than in support of the proposition he's been right about everything all along
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my position is: He has been more consistently right than other major Democratic Party-aligned politicians, particularly on matters that Congress had the direct power to influence.
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I agree with that position!
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