Forget Denmark, the culmination of Bernie Sanders’ socialist dreams would look a lot more like Venezuela.
J.D. Tuccille writes:
Last September, Independent-Socialist-turned-Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders got a bit pissy when supporters of Hillary Clinton tied him to Hugo Chavez, the late supreme leader of Venezuela. They “tried to link me to a dead communist dictator” his campaign complained of a super PAC mailing that pointed to Sanders working with Chavez in 2005 to bring oil subsidized by the Venezuelan government to Vermont as part of a mutual publicity ploy.
The harsh distancing may have been a step too far for lefty fans of the late Venezuelan strongman and his American comrade. A press release on the same incident preserved at BernieSanders.com refers instead to “the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.”
Apparently all is forgiven. Last month Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’s hand-picked successor, praised Sanders as “an emerging candidate with a renovating and revolutionary message.”
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