Coming from the Left, criticisms have often been founded in legitimate concern that Sanders’s foreign policy hasn’t departed from the bipartisan consensus as much as his domestic economic policy has. For example, while all of the above is true, he doesn’t support the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, and he cast his vote for US military intervention several times during his decades-long tenure in the Senate. He has spoken on occasion about the need to preserve American military might, even while he inveighs against the waste and the abuses of the US military at other times. [...]
Sanders identified as a major threat the rise of right-wing leaders, naming Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán among others. These leaders differ in many respects, he said, but share an “intolerance toward ethnic and religious minorities, hostility toward democratic norms, antagonism toward a free press, constant paranoia about foreign plots, and a belief that the leaders of government should be able use their positions of power to serve their own selfish financial interests.” [...]
But Trump did not cause this rot in the system, Sanders insisted. He is a consequence of it.
Like others on the authoritarian right, he has risen to power by stoking hatred and division that was already endemic in a stratified and hypercompetitive society, and tapping into well-established corporate networks that likewise predated his political career.
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