CBS to Socialist Sanders: Maybe Just Drop the Socialism Label?

Scott Whitlock | February 14, 2020
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[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS This Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil on Friday played strategist for Bernie Sanders. Dokoupil suggested that the socialist Sanders just stop calling himself a socialist. He didn’t advise that the 2020 candidate to stop being a socialist, just to maybe not call himself that. Turning into a PR agent, Dokoupil “You have got this label stuck to you, socialist. You have got someone from your own party, the Democratic Party, saying they don't want socialism in South Carolina referring to you. I know there's a difference between democratic socialism and socialism but why do you hold on to that label, Democratic socialist, when it seems to confuse people and give your enemies and critics an opportunity to bash you?” 

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