America has been spared from Bernie Sanders’ terrible ideas

The Democratic Party’s brief flirtations with a far-left presidential candidate finally came to an end this past week. On Wednesday, self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont suspended his presidential campaign.
Despite early success, there were always reasons to believe Sanders’ victories were in large part a function of the Democratic field being as large as it was.
All it took was a deliberate effort by the relatively moderate candidates including Pete But