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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
He's much further Left than any US politician has ever been AINEC.
In Europe Sanders would be only slightly to the left of centre. Mélenchon's platform includes plans to borrow and spend, while taxing huge incomes over E30k/month at 100% and lowering the legal working week from 35 hours to 32 hours.
He's an unreconstructed old fashioned traditional Socialist.
You're giving him way too much credit. He's the youngest senator ever, been around the parti socialiste for ever, voted enthusiastically for Maastricht, was pro-intervention in libya.
If he was that much of a revolutionnary why would a bank finance his campaign for 8M€?
Also he won't be able to apply his program within the EU framework, he'll make **** stall like Tsipras, pretend like he did his best and go on with the EU program.