'She has to show she is not some scary liberal': VP Harris looks to win over swing voters - Deadline - MSNBC

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12. I remember in 2015 ...

... shortly after Bernie Sanders announced that he was running for President, Thom Hartmann on his radio show ran a segment in which he went through a long list of issues that polls showed were supported by Bernie Sanders and more than 60 percent of Americans. It was a long list, and Hartmann's purpose was to dispel the image of Bernie as some far out there wild-eyed radical "liberal" and to show that Bernie was very much in the mainstream of American politics. I kept thinking while listening that if this list is this long, how much longer would it be if it were above 50 percent? For decades right-wingers have been trying to paint "liberals" as fringe radicals but we are actually in the political mainstream and THEY are the ones who are the radicals, and yes, WEIRD. And there are more of us than there are of them. We just need to get our people out on Nov. 5. And it won't hurt if we will point out that "liberals" are actually in the American political mainstream.

-- Ron