RON RADOSH: No New York Post, Bernie Sanders is Not a Communist:

Conservatives should oppose Sanders not for his views of twenty to forty years ago, since he has obviously rethought his old Leninism and discarded it. They should oppose him because what he advocates today would bankrupt our country, destroy American business, increase taxes, and lead to suffering of the very working and middle classes whose interests he purports to favor. But to write, as Sperry does, that he is a “hardcore commie” only creates sympathy for him among those naïve followers who will bemoan the new Red-baiting taking place.

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Sanders favors big government social-democratic measures, most of which most Democrats now support since the party moved further and further to the left. The old-style centrist Democrats in the party, like the old Bill Clinton and the now defunct Democratic Leadership Council in the 90s, are almost extinct.

So perhaps Sanders could be best defined as a socialist — with “a whole lot of nationalism mixed up in the socialism,” as Kevin D. Williamson noted last year.