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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jan 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Josh Barro

    The underlying assumption here is that the American media and political elite suffers from a an insufficient number of voices willing to criticize social democracy. This has not been my experience.https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1220496595709460480 …

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    Josh BarroVerified account @jbarro
    It's not that Sanders hasn't been vetted. It's that he's never faced sustained attacks from his right. Clinton and her surrogates tried all these ways to get to his left -- he's too soft on guns, he's not a real Democrat, he's not woke enough, etc.
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      1. pritesh patel‏ @pdog2009 24 Jan 2020
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        It's not going to be policy based attacks.

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      2. David Tenner‏ @tenner_david 24 Jan 2020
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        She's to his right but she and her backers generally didn't use right-wing arguments to attack him. To the extent his socialism was criticized it was mostly for being the Old Left "class over race/gender" kind.

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      2. Dustin Gillard‏ @dtgillard 24 Jan 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I think the assumption is an outfit like Fox News will move from a position of bemused indifference to a wall-to-wall assault if he were the nominee, and that’s likely to have an effect.

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      3. Napoleon (the pig)‏ @Mark_in_Ohio 24 Jan 2020
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        Exactly

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      1. Kyle LeRoy‏ @KyleLeRoy 24 Jan 2020
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        The greatest similarity between Sanders and Trump is the reasons they are anathema to press and the beltway and the reasons their supporters support them are the same.

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      1. 𝔻𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕖𝕝, 𝔼𝕤𝕢.‏ @Daniel22223333 24 Jan 2020
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        Well, there's a lot about Bernie that's in the public domain, but hasn't been really used yet. Trump would use it. Believe me, it would be ugly, and it would seem new to most voters. I like Bernie. He isn't my candidate (I'm Team Warren), but I like him fine. But ... ugh.

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      2. Ras-Putin‏ @PrinceNorodom 24 Jan 2020
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        You may believe that Fox and the Koch Bros will be mighty persuaded by Bernie's socialist populism and lay off him all the way to the white house, but that would be silly

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      2. Ben Piggot‏ @BenPiggot 24 Jan 2020
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        i do think this is a serious concern for Sanders - the right wing media has never attacked him in a sustained/repetitive way. Sanders was largely useful to the right in 2016, but that will obviously change if he is the nominee.

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      3. Ben Piggot‏ @BenPiggot 24 Jan 2020
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        and I like Bernie and think their is a strong electability case for him. But his candidacy is very risky for this reason.

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