FLASHBACK: How an Adoring Media Aided Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign
25th May 2025
en years ago this week, Vermont socialist Senator Bernie Sanders formally announced his first bid for the White House. It was the most serious left-wing campaign since Henry Wallace in the late 1940s, with a platform that included massive new spending, oppressively higher taxes, and a crippling $18 trillion in new debt.
Which is why people voted for Trump.
By any definition, it was an extremist agenda. Yet while a similarly extreme far-right candidate would have faced withering criticism from the press, the establishment media celebrated Sanders for his “passion” and the “seriousness” of his radical ideas.
As they do.