Is Bernie Back? Blog Stage 4

Joe Cunningham discusses the possibility that Bernie Sanders will be running for Presidency in 2020 against President Donald Trump in his most recent restate article. I believe that Cunningham wrote this article to inform active members of our political system of our possible candidates in the upcoming election of 2020. Bernie seems to be wanting to make a comeback by polishing up his knowledge of foreign affairs and the outreach to the labor movement. 

In the 2016 presidential election, Bernie was out of commentary and answers regarding US foreign policies and even the names of the higher power executives of other countries. His lack of knowledge in foreign affairs and leaders left Sanders in the dust behind Trump and Clinton.   If Sanders has made the change to his foreign political knowledge, he would be a fantastic candidate to run again Trump.  Currently, Trump has a 38% approval rate slowly trickling down, not ready for reelection in 2020. Incumbency will not help him out here and a strong candidate like Sanders may be just what the U.S needs to “Make America Great Again.

I agree with Cunningham that this is a great time for Sanders to make his comeback. But I disagree with Cunningham when he says that “Democrats would be foolish to let the Sanders Left dictate the party’s direction.”  Recently, much of the US public has proposed to impeach President Trump to allow Mike Pence to replace him as president. Cunningham states “From an objective stance, this is smart of Sanders if 2020 is in his sights. He got some solid grassroots support and was thwarted only by his own aforementioned weaknesses and his party establishment lining up against him.” Sanders would be a very dramatic and perfect replacement in the executive branch. He proposes for a second bill of rights to be written. Given that the last bill of rights was written in 1791, with the US’s current advance in technology, a second bill of rights may be the answer to the US economy. Although in the 2016 elections I was not a huge fan of Bernie Sanders myself due to his lack of knowledge, a strong democratic and socialist movement seems to be what the US needs after Trump’s proposals for walls and military threats towards North Korea.