President Trump unveils his Middle East peace plan, team Trump concludes its impeachment defense,

and panic sets in for Democrats as Bernie closes in on Iowa. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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Well, you may have noticed this is a chaotic year already, right? We are not even at the end of

January. We've already had a confrontation with Iran. We've already had the stock market

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Ben to 47, 47, 47. Okay. So we'll get to everything impeachment related in a little bit.

We'll also get to everything 2020 related because Bernie Sanders continues to surge.

And the media continue to pretend that Bernie Sanders is like a normal Democrat as opposed to a flaming communist, a flaming geriatric communist. It's unbelievable that Bernie has never been asked a single question about something as simple as, do you believe that private property is a right? Right. Now, normally, you wouldn't have to ask a candidate that question, but when you're Bernie Sanders and you have spent your entire career calling for the nationalization of all product and the destruction of the profit motive at a certain point, it seems like it would be worthwhile to ask him whether he believes that he believes healthcare

is right. So does he believe private property ownership is a right? Does he believe that it's a right?

Seriously, very simple question. Does Bernie Sanders believe that the energy sector should be nationalized?

He has said so before. Does he believe that the banks should be nationalized? He has said that before. Does he believe that real estate should be nationalized. He has said so before. Does he believe that the banks should

be nationalized? He has said that before. Does he believe that real estate should be nationalized?

He just called for national rent control. National rent control effectively means that if you want

new public units built, you're going to have to do it through public funding, which means

public housing. So what doesn't he want to nationalize? These would be very simple questions,

and you would figure that a guy who came in a very narrow second to Hillary Clinton last time around would have been asked some simple questions, but nobody asked him any simple questions. And so instead you have this pie in the sky nonsense he's been preaching for literally decades. And everybody acting as though this is normal stuff, as though they can pick and choose from his communist poo-poo platter and that everybody will

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