While on The View, Senator Sanders (I-VT) exposed the real face of the Republican cabal.
Sanders said, “I’m not happy to say this. We have a very lunatic fringe wingnut extremist Republican cabal. This is not the cabal of Dwight David Eisenhower.”
Sanders continued, “Too many of them are. Too many of them really are now. You just heard Carson’s statement.”
Behar weighed in, “He’s on the fringe I think.”
Sanders said, “I’m afraid not. Really. Joy, I wish I could tell you that….You haven’t been around Congress too long. These are guys who basically believe. This is their agenda more or less. Huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, huge cuts to education. Virtually all of them are against a woman’s right to choose. Very few of them support gay rights. The right of gay people to marry. That is their agenda.”
Joy Behar is a very liberal person, but her questions represented some commonly held misperceptions about the current state of the Republican cabal that are likely to exist among many audience members of a show like The View.
People who don’t pay close attention to politics are likely to hold a view of the Republican cabal that is outdated and inaccurate. This is not the Republican cabal of Eisenhower. Today’s Republican cabal is not even the cabal of Reagan.
One of the real upsides of the Bernie Sanders campaign is that the Senator from Vermont has taken the liberal message national. Whether or not Senator Sanders wins the Democratic nomination, he has brought mainstream media attention to the liberal message.
Senator Sanders is exposing the Republican cabal for what it is, and he is opening the eyes of millions of Americans to what the Republican cabal has become.
It is easy for people who closely follow politics to treat what Sanders said on The View as common sense, but to the vast majority of the country what Sen. Sanders is saying is a revelation.
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