In what his campaign billed as a “major” speech, Sanders sought to define the label disparaged by Trump and other conservatives as a continuation of FDR’s New Deal.
For months, President Trump has tried to paint the 2020 Democratic presidential field as “far-left radicals” pushing a radical socialist agenda.
In a speech at George Washington University, Sanders sought to define democratic socialism as a continuation of FDR’s New Deal. “We must take the next step forward and guarantee every man, woman and child in our country basic economic rights,” he said. “The right to quality health care, the right to as much education as one needs to succeed in our society, the right to a good job that pays a living wage, the right to affordable housing, the right to a secure retirement and the right to live in a clean environment.
Sanders then blasted what he called the “hypocrisy” exhibited by big banks when they needed to be bailed out. Sanders’s advisers hope his speech will help differentiate him from his progressive rival in the Democratic presidential race, Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The Massachusetts senator, who supports many of the progressive policies Sanders does, describes herself as a market capitalist.
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