Bernie Sanders Defends ‘Socialism’ Amid Republican Attacks
- 2020 Democratic hopeful calls it answer to authoritarianism
- Other Democrats reject label as Trump tags entire field
Bernie Sanders with Fight For $15 fast food workers in Iowa on June 9.
Photographer: Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Bernie Sanders is fully embracing the socialist label that President Donald Trump and Republicans have used as an attack line against all of the Democrats running for president.
The Vermont senator is venturing into territory avoided by all the other Democratic presidential hopefuls in a speech Wednesday in Washington in which he’ll make the case for what he calls democratic socialism and attest that it’s the only path to ending “authoritarianism” and oligarchy.