Ben Shapiro: Bernie Sanders is unstoppable -- even if Democrats won't admit it

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Ben Shapiro: Bernie Sanders is unstoppable -- even if Democrats won't admit it

By Ben Shapiro | Creators Syndicate

There is no doubt that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is now the leading Democratic presidential candidate. That's not because his ideas are overwhelmingly popular -- a majority of Americans approve of capitalism, while less than 1 in 5 like socialism; few Americans are on board with total nationalization of health care, even if many like the idea of universal health care; most Americans do not approve of Sanders' anti-American ideology with regard to foreign policy.

But nobody in the Democratic Party can stop Bernie.

There's a reason for this: The Democratic Party has fed off the energy of Sanders' ideology hoping that, eventually, the voters would come to their senses. Leading candidates have echoed Sanders' talking points. Sen. Elizabeth Warren adopted and then abandoned Medicare for All, and former Vice President Joe Biden mirrored Sanders' Howard Zinn historical perspective. Those who have attempted to siphon off Sanders' base and approximate his authenticity have failed dramatically.

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Nobody in the Dem race will stand up to Sanders. Because whether they agree with him or not, they're all spineless weasels. Obviously, some of them  agree with Sanders extreme positions.
A principled Dem (a commodity extremely rare today) would tell him off. And maybe surge ahead. I'll bet there's millions of average Dems who believe, like James Carville, that the party has lurched off the left side of the political universe.
But now they're stuck with Bernie and the rest.
We'll see what Mayor Doomberg does. He's the last hope for a semi-sane Dem in the race, and he hasn't even announced yet.