Tonight, Hillary Clinton commented on Bernie Sanders’ unrealistic plans, saying, “My dad used to say, ‘If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.’ And we deserve answers about how his programs will actually work and how they would be paid for.
She’s right, and the media agrees:
Mother Jones headline: “The Sanders campaign has crossed into Neverland.” [Mother Jones, 2/17/16]
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]
Slate headline: “Sanders Is Delusional If He Thinks He Can Keep His Promise on Mass Incarceration.” [Slate, 2/11/16]
Slate headline: “The Sanders Campaign Thinks It Can Give Us 5 Percent Economic Growth. It’s Deluded.” [Slate, 2/18/16]
Salon’s Gary Legum: Pointing out that a President Sanders could not get his agenda through Congress “is not ‘giving up’ or ‘accepting the Trumpization of America’ or even ‘mushy centrism.’ It is math.” [Salon, 1/21/16]
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]