Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on Sunday. (Erin Kirkland/Bloomberg News) Watching Democratic presidential aspirants is like watching, a century ago, the 1919 World Series , when discerning spectators thought: Some of the White Sox are trying to lose. Michael Boskin, chairman of President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers and currently at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, pays the Democrats the injurious compliment of taking seriously their aspirations, which are characterized by a disqualifying flippancy. For example :
Medicare-for-all is popular (when depriving 217 million people of their private insurance goes unmentioned) because, Boskin notes, under Medicare […]
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