Tonight Bernie Sanders tried to defend his economic plan, that economists tore apart this week for containing “no credible economic research” and using “claims that cannot be supported by the economic evidence.”
Washington Post: Top Democratic economists just launched a brutal attack on Bernie Sanders
Politico: Former White House economists blast Sanders’ proposals
CNN Money: Economic utopia under President Sanders? Not likely, say former White House economists
New York Times: Left-Leaning Economists Question Cost of Bernie Sanders’s Plans
New York Times: Liberal Economists Raise More Red Flags on Bernie Sanders’s Spending Plans
NPR: Top Wonks Take Aim At Sanders Economic Estimates
Vox: Top Democratic economists don’t think much of Bernienomics. He doesn’t care.
Like many of his other proposals, this plan is unrealistic and it is inauthentic for him to continue to suggest otherwise. As one opinion writer suggested recently, when it comes to Bernie’s promises, “like the emperor who had no clothes, the Senator has no revolution.”
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: “Those areas in which a Democratic Executive branch has no power are those in which Sanders demands aggressive action, and the areas in which the Executive branch still has power now are precisely those in which Sanders has the least to say.” [New York Magazine, 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]