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Biden-Sanders Unity Agreement Marks Democrats’ Lurch to the Left

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Biden-Sanders Unity Agreement Marks Democrats’ Lurch to the Left
Democratic presidential hopefuls former Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Sen. Bernie Sanders greet each other with a safe elbow bump before the start of the 11th Democratic Party 2020 presidential debate in a CNN Washington Bureau studio in Washington on March 15, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Conrad Black
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The Biden–Sanders unity agreement revealed on July 8 is, even for those of us prepared to fear the worst, an astonishing lurch to the far left by the traditionally centrist-left party it claims to unite.
Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.
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