Bernie Sanders Takes Out Jeb Bush and The Koch Brothers With A Hurricane Of Liberalism

The Koch brothers were big fans of Scott Walker’s. He had a lot of money in his super PAC. And yet he disappeared from the presidential race. Is that a rebuttal to your argument that big money just totally calls the tune in politics?

SANDERS: I wish it were, and I wish that the Koch brothers would say, well, gee, now we’re going to take the $900 million that we planned to spend in this campaign supporting right-wing Republicans, more, by the way, than either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party will spend, and we’re not going to spend it.

But, John, I don’t think the Koch brothers learned that lesson. I think the power of money over the political process is horrendous. I think that super PACs are a very, very playing destructive role in our political system. And I will do, if president, everything that I can to see that this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision is overturned.

American democracy is not about billionaires buying elections or trying to buy elections.

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DICKERSON: That is a kind of argument that will be used against you if you get the nomination, the idea that you’re just — you’re promising health care for all and free college. You’re just — it’s a bunch of free stuff. It’s unrealistic.

What is your reaction?

SANDERS: Well, let’s be clear that what Jeb Bush is proposing are massive tax breaks for the richest people in this country, while he will fight to cut Social Security and Medicare and programs that tens of millions of elderly people and middle-class people and working-class people depend upon.

I happen to believe, John, that in a democratic, civilized society, all people should be entitled to healthcare as a right. Yes, I do believe that. Is this a radical idea? No, it’s not. Every other major industrialized country on Earth does the same.

Yes, I believe that it is absurd that, in a highly competitive global economy, we have got hundreds of thousands of bright young people who are qualified to college, but can’t because their families lack the income. So, yes, I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition-free.