Hello and welcome to the political orphanage thinking outside the box and often outside the law. I'm your host Andrew Heaton

the Mr Rogers of Free Enterprise. The last couple of months I've been paying a lot of attention to the Democratic primary

and whether or not they'll nominate Bernie Sanders or a centrist in the upcoming cage

match against Donald Trump. At the time of this recording, Bernie has the lead. He came in second by a hair

in Iowa, first in New Hampshire, and first in Nevada. By a lot. He got 46% in a crowded field. The next candidate didn't even get half of what he made.

So the 2020 election might be the battle of the populists.

Donald Trump, charitably, the P.T. Barnum of American politics and uncharitably, an

authoritarian proto-fascist, versus Bernie Sanders, a socialist cartoon character who thinks

math is a capitalist conspiracy designed to keep people

down.

It's what I've been calling the Sophie's choice election and every day we move closer to my worst

electoral nightmare.

So if we get to the Sophie's Choice election, where America is asked to choose between

Lex Luthor or the Bread Lines candidate, a lot of Americans will be openly contemplating other options,

like third parties, immigration, or hanging themselves.

Now I wasn't around during the Nixon administration, but I see a lot of parallels between it and 2020.

Let's look at the 1972 election specifically between Nixon and McGovern.

Nixon was a

idea- The Republicans used to have a progressive wing and Nixon comfortably fit in it.

Nixon was for price controls. He founded the EPA and he established a program which we would later call

Medicare. That thing Bernie Sanders wants to extend to everyone, Nixon started that.

But if there's one thing we can definitely agree on about Nixon, it's that he was

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