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Hysterical rubbish is exploding around the candidacy of Bernie Sanders in the US presidential election. It’s led off here today by an apoplectic Greg Sheridan:

Could Bernie Sanders possibly be president? He’s 78, a self-declared socialist who wants a revolution in US politics, a left-winger who wants to abolish private health insurance, make tertiary education free and forgive all student debt, who wants to raise taxes, who damns all fossil fuels in the crusade against climate change.

He recently had a heart attack and has never been a member of the Democratic Party. He went to the Soviet Union for his honeymoon and extolled the Soviet system’s strengths. Sanders is the American Jeremy Corbyn. A Sanders presidency would be disastrous, geo-strategically and in every other way.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.