MSNBC’S LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: ‘ESSENTIAL TRUTH THAT WE’RE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW’

Last night, Lawrence O’Donnell gushed over Bernie Sanders’ authenticity and the consistently large crowds he has acquired in his speeches across the country. The July 6 edition of The Last Word featured a panel discussion which emphasized that the Vermont senator’s policies aren’t that far outside the mainstream.

O’Donnell asked former Vermont governor Howard Dean if Sanders has “managed to educate Vermonters to the essential truth that we’re all socialists now?”

Huh — Newsweek told me at the start of 2009 that newly minted President Barack Obama meant “We Are All Socialists Now:”

So how are seven years of those socialist policies working out for everyone?

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