Bernie Sanders’ plans simply don’t add up. Sanders talks a big game with plans that may “[sound] great,” but as we saw in his interview with the New York Daily News, he doesn’t even know how he would implement many of his plans. From counting delegates to laying out unrealistic plans, the Sanders campaign seems to struggle with math…and reality.
SANDERS’ UNREALISTIC PLANS:
Mother Jones headline: “The Sanders campaign has crossed into Neverland.” [Mother Jones, 2/17/16]
Boston Globe’s Michael Cohen: Bernie Sanders “gets away with proposing unrealistic policy ideas that have little chance of being passed even by Democrats in Congress, let alone Republicans, and then gets praised for being authentic.” [Boston Globe, 1/18/16]
New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait: “It seems bizarre for Democrats to risk losing the presidency by embracing a politically radical doctrine that stands zero chance of enactment even if they win.” [New York Magazine, 1/18/16]
Slate headline: “Sanders Is Delusional If He Thinks He Can Keep His Promise on Mass Incarceration.”[Slate, 2/11/16]
Huffington Post headline: “Here’s One Big Problem With The Bernie Sanders Plan For Health Care Utopia; It sounds great, but there’s no way he can deliver.” [Huffington Post, 1/21/16]
“The false charms of Bernie Sanders’s single-payer plan.” [Washington Post editorial, 2/7/16]
Slate headline: “Sanders Is Delusional If He Thinks He Can Keep His Promise on Mass Incarceration.” [Slate, 2/11/16]
SANDERS STRUGGLES WITH MATH:
“The numbers don’t remotely add up.” [Austan Goolsbee, formerly chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, New York Times, 2/15/16]
“These are numbers we would describe as deep voodoo if they came from a tax-cutting Republican.” [Paul Krugman, New York Times, 2/18/16]
“Left-Leaning Economists Question Cost of Bernie Sanders’s Plans” [The New York Times, 2/15/16]
Slate headline: “The Sanders Campaign Thinks It Can Give Us 5 Percent Economic Growth. It’s Deluded.” [Slate, 2/18/16]
EVEN SANDERS DOESN’T KNOW HOW HE WILL IMPLEMENT HIS PLANS:
Vanity Fair headline: “Bernie Sanders Admits He Isn’t Sure How to Break Up Big Banks.” [Vanity Fair, 4/5/16]
VICE headline: “Bernie Sanders Can’t Explain How He’d Break Up Big Banks, Among Other Things.” [VICE, 4/5/16]
Fortune Magazine headline: “Bernie Sanders Can’t Explain How He’d Break up the Banks” [Fortune Magazine, 4/5/16]