THE CONFUSIONS OF THE LEFT, OR, WHEN BERNIE MADE SENSE

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Power Line
Steven Hayward
Aug. 2, 2018

It’s giant bucket full-butter popcorn time watching the left not know how to react to Trump trashing the Koch brothers. Naturally I had to do up a custom meme just for the occasion. Not only are the Kochs disaffected with the Trump policy on trade, but they are also way more pro-immigration.

Which brings me back to those old comments from Bernie Sanders that the left really want to make disappear down an Orwellian memory hole (with Bernie’s full cooperation, it turns out, since open borders is now the central dogma of the Democratic Party).

Remember that Sanders voted against the Bush Administration’s immigration reform proposal in 2007 (big labor also opposed that bill). Sanders’s most famous quote about open borders immigration is that it is “a Koch brothers proposal.”

More... https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/the-confusions-of-the-left-or-when-bernie-made-sense.php

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Even a socialist such as Sanders understands that allowing open borders is a recipe to have the resources that you're trying to redistribute to your countrymen looted by (hostile) foreigners.

Very few socialist states throw open their doors to let anyone in (or out, for that matter). To the extent that it "works," it only works in a closed system.

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Even a socialist such as Sanders understands that allowing open borders is a recipe to have the resources that you're trying to redistribute to your countrymen looted by (hostile) foreigners.

It's hard to know what he understands when he'll blow with the political winds as long as the winds don't blow against his socialism.