Increasingly, if the Republicans won’t take a stand for the values we all cherish, they are making an argument for us to vote for Bernie Sanders as a way to punish corporate America for its treasonous behavior.
Sanders would simply increase the cronyism. Yes, he would expect more in taxes, but at the same time, as even more decisions fall to government apparatchiks, so there would be even more rent-seeking and corruption. Sanders would just make the insiders, and politically-connected, richer, while further bankrupting the middle class.
This is the unavoidable nature of socialism everywhere.
I believe your on to something there concerning Sanders and the GOP.