National Review says Bernie Sanders is a national socialist (NAZI Party)
In the Bernieverse, there’s a whole lot of nationalism mixed up in the socialism. He is, in fact, leading a national-socialist movement, which is a queasy and uncomfortable thing to write about a man who is the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and whose family was murdered in the Holocaust. But there is no other way to characterize his views and his politics.
One could say that this is a repugnant thing to say about a man who is not only not a Nazi, but in fact an old Jewish guy whose family was murdered in the Holocaust. But Williamson is actually well aware that Sanders's family was murdered in the Holocaust. He even says it makes him "queasy" to call Sanders a Nazi. "But there is no other way to characterize his views and his politics."
I think it's actually pretty easy to characterize Sanders as something other than a Nazi. You can accurately describe him, for instance, as a left-wing liberal and a loyal ally of American labor unions — for high taxes and a generous welfare state, but also skeptical of international trade deals.
But Williamson thinks there is no other way to characterize Sanders's views than to say he's a national socialist.
Something to be clear about here is that Williamson not only knows that this characterization is repugnant and inappropriate, but he's also perfectly aware that it's inaccurate:
http://www.vox.com/2015/7/20/9007815/bernie-sanders-national-socialist
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