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FEATURES Bernie Sanders is back – and terrifying the Democratic establishment

Bernie Sanders likes private jets. That, at least, is the malicious word being put about by Hillary Clinton’s former aides this week, just days after Sanders announced that he is again running for president.

Sanders, you’ll recall, lost a vicious fight against Clinton for the Democratic nomination in the first half of 2016. Yet in the weeks leading up to the November election, he held 39 rallies in 13 different states that were pro-Hillary and anti-Trump. Pretty noble of him, you might think, given how the Clinton machine had taken him down. According to Team Hillary, however, Bernie behaved like a bolshie diva. He insisted that chartered planes must take him everywhere. And he has the nerve to preach about climate change and the avaricious 0.2 per cent!

Listen carefully to this Clintonite griping, however, and you hear panic. The Democratic party establishment is terrified of Bernie, a true radical who threatens its leadership, and it has no idea how to stop him. Hillary scuppered his insurgency four years ago, just, but the Clintons are gone (for now) and the centre of the Democratic party has shunted dramatically left. Sanders consistently polls as the most popular politician in America. In the 2016 primary, he won 23 states and 46 per cent of elected delegates. It’s hard to see how he won’t do better this time.

Sanders, now 77, may be grumpier but he has a vast movement behind him and his social media power has grown. He declared his candidacy on 19 February, and has already recruited one million volunteers. His rivals would kill for a slice of that enthusiasm.

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His centrist detractors can say ‘socialism doesn’t work’ and ‘look at Venezuela’ as much as they want, but Bernie’s core policy positions are now mainstream in America. He’s just a fraction to the left of the British Conservative party: healthcare for all, raising the minimum wage, free public universities. He may be a billionaire-basher, and deep red au fond, as his affinity with -Jeremy Corbyn suggests. But when old videos emerge of him praising the Soviet Union, it doesn’t dent his popularity; it just makes him seem more authentic (Corbyn-loathers, take note). He’s also, as candidate Trump was, strongly opposed to pointless wars. That’s a vote winner.

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According to the polls, the only Democrat who can stop Sanders is Joe Biden, the 76-year-old former vice-president. Biden can match Sanders in the amiable codger stakes, and he is popular because he trots out Obama–like platitudes about bringing the country together. But Biden has not yet announced his candidacy, and he’s an old fraud really, a career politician who has hopped about on race, abortion and taxes, depending on what was expedient. He fell flat when he tried to become president in 1988, after plagiarising a speech by Neil Kinnock, and again in 2008, when he was monstered by Obama and Clinton. Biden’s poll advantage could melt away upon contact with reality, if he does run. Sanders 2020, on the other hand, is already flying.

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Bernie Sanders Moves to Rescue Yemen Withdrawal After House Screwed It Up

On Feb. 13, the House passed a resolution by Sanders ally Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) that called U.S. military aid to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen a violation of the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which reasserted Congress’ constitutional authority for warmaking in the wake of Vietnam. Backed by House Democratic leadership and fueled by anger at Saudi Arabia for the grisly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, it passed 248-177, though it wasn’t quite the victory progressives had sought.

But House Republicans tacked onto the Yemen resolution an amendment expressing support for Israel and declaiming antisemitism, an unsubtle attack aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for a tweet her enemies seized upon to call the Muslim congresswoman anti-Semitic. The amendment passed overwhelmingly, but the process jeopardized the antiwar maneuver’s passage in the Senate.

That’s because the House language introduced something technically termed “non-germane” to the Sanders-Khanna resolution. That in turn screwed up a legislative maneuver known as “privilege” intended to route around Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who opposes the anti-war effort, and bring the resolution to the Senate floor without going through the foreign-relations committee. On Monday, the Senate parliamentarian ruled that the House-passed resolution had lost privilege because of the Israel/anti-Semitism amendment.

To save the Yemen extrication, Sanders, who last week announced a second run for president, is turning to a Plan B. Instead of pushing ahead with the House version, Sanders will instead move to discharge the exact same resolution that the Senate passed in December, a resolution that both matches the initial House language and has already been ruled as privileged, so it can come to the floor. Sanders and his allies, Republican Mike Lee of Utah and Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut, will call on their colleagues to pass the same measure in the current Congress.

Then, they’ll ask Khanna to get the House to re-pass the measure it passed earlier this month. It’s going to be a tough ask, but there’s brewing outrage amongst sympathetic House Democrats over the opportunity the parliamentarian’s ruling hands McConnell. Eliot Engel, a relatively conservative New York Democrat who chairs the House foreign-affairs committee, called it “just disgraceful” and a signal that the Senate GOP is out to bury the Yemen withdrawal.

For his part, Khanna is on board, his office told The Daily Beast.

“Rep. Khanna will support Sen. Sanders’ plan to move this forward in the Senate. Once the senate passes the resolution, it will come back to the House for a vote and the Congressman will work with leadership and the [Congressional Progressive Caucus] to see it head to the president,” said Heather Purcell, Khanna’s spokesperson. “And meanwhile, Rep. Khanna is hopeful the president may still sign it, though we know it’s an uphill battle. It would be hypocritical to be for withdrawal in Afghanistan and withdrawal in Syria and then say we need to be involved in the Saudi war in Yemen.”

Erica Fein, the advocacy director for Win Without War, said the fallback plan still had a “better than 50-50 shot” of passage.

This was a disgraceful ruling by the Senate Parliamentarian and McConnell’s desperate attempt not to allow for a vote to end the war in Yemen. But @SenSanders will prevail in passing his resolution in the Senate, and then we will pass it again in the House. We need a stronger WPR https://t.co/NuChtfgH5U

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) February 26, 2019

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*Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill ‘Medicare for All’
*Warning ‘Every Option Is On the Table,’ Pompeo Stokes Fears of Military Force in Venezuela
*They voted for a blue wave of progressive policies. They got a Democratic governor resisting the call for higher taxes on the rich.
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