Originally Posted by
jon1959
Sanders is the best of the bunch in the Democratic race - but although he describes himself as a democratic socialist, and his political enemies (Trumpers, Republicans, the some in the Democrats' party machine) describe him as a communist, he is really just a mainstream social democrat in European terms.
Nancy Pelosi has come out this week to say she would happily work with him if he wins the nomination and that says a lot about Bernie's threat to the political/financial establishment in the USA. His policies are progressive and mildly redistributive, but not anti-capitalist at all, and in some ways mirror Trump's 2016 appeal to rust belt voters.
If he does get the nomination the slander and vitriol against him will be ramped up. The treatment Corbyn got from a hostile media and political enemies (some of the most scandalous in the Parliamentary Labour Party) will be small change compared to what Sanders will face. However he does appear to be in a stronger position compared to Trump than Corbyn was compared to Johnson.