Purged! Bernie Sanders No Longer Left Enough Because Hesitant to Abolish ICE

breitbart ^ | JOEL B. POLLAK

[davikkm]

Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is no longer left enough for some Democrats, because he has been reluctant to join calls to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That’s according to the New Republic, once a reliable center-left organ. Writer Sarah Jones has declared that Sanders is “undermining his position as the nation’s most prominent left-wing politician” by suggesting that ICE should be reformed, rather than endorsing the total elimination of border enforcement.

Jones writes:

Sanders could be a source of consistent, left-wing pressure on party leadership, whether or not he runs in 2020. If he intends to build a lasting political movement out of the remnants of his last presidential campaign, he’ll need to become an effective counterweight to the mainstream Democratic Party. But based on his ICE comments and the uneven results of his campaign efforts, Sanders no longer seems like such a sure figurehead for disgruntled Democratic voters.

While Sanders has inspired many on the left, including newest Democratic Party heroine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his refusal to abolish ICE outright, Jones argues, means that perhaps he was never such a thought leader after all. “[D]espite his sudden popularity in 2015, Sanders has never been a figurehead to everyone in the American left. … He does not occupy the left-most band of the spectrum,” Jones writes.

[Tammy8]

Great idea!

[pabianice]

The good news for Bernie is that he has three houses to move among if they come for him.

[DPMD]

It seems a law of nature that extremists like sanders create monsters that eventually eat their creators. It’s the Frankenstein Rule of Progressive Politics.

[wally_bert]

Doesn’t he have an Audi R8 to zip around in?

[Retvet]

Take away ICE, then The USA doesn’t exsist! No borders no country. Democrats (”HATE”) The USA!

[justa-hairyape]

The call to abolish ICE is from the Deep State. The crooks. Open borders increases their profit margins. The old guard, tired of Hillary progresso wing, is being attacked by the Deep State psyops operation. Abolish ICE. As others have noted, this is a operation designed to fail politically, on its surface. Vast support for border control. So ramping up the border wars is the way they will take this. Look for false flags on border. Also expect real attacks on ice. Looks like they want war.

[ek_hornbeck]

It's hard to believe that at one time many Democrats (especially union members and politicians who represented union-heavy states) were as against illegal immigration as conservatives, because illegal immigrant labor undercut the jobs and wages of American workers.

Since then, the Democrats have pretty much given up on any pretense of representing American workers (at least the white ones, who are now "a basket of deplorables") to instead focus on shifting the US racial and ethnic demographic in their favor. Bernie is just a few decades behind the times.