Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Edith Wright
“Bernie Sanders’[s] nativist tendencies are in the news again. When asked in a recent interview if Trump had done anything right so far, he praised how the new administration — not to say dictatorship — has handled border policy. Repeating an electorally salient lie that helped put us in this mess, Bernie is apparently quite pleased to see Trump and his cronies cracking down on the flood of fentanyl supposedly crossing the US-Mexico border every day. Not quite content with the government screwing innocent, hardworking drug importers and their customers, he went on to express opposition to ‘illegal immigration.’ … It’s pretty interesting that someone who is perhaps the most iconic alleged lefty in contemporary American politics is also broadly supportive of these far-right policies. It also isn’t remotely surprising.” (04/16/25)