Last year, Pete Buttigieg himself made a solid yet obvious point. “If we embrace a conservative agenda, you know what they’re going to do?” he said. Republicans will say “we’re a bunch of crazy socialists. So let’s stand up for the right policy, go up there and defend it.”

If every Democrat is going to be called a socialist, maybe the one who has spent decades dealing with this charge is our best choice. And given that 4 in 10 American adults can’t afford a$400 emergency, you can argue that the best candidate to run against Trump — a walking monument to the dangers of inherited wealth — is a candidate who has spent decades warning against the evils of an economy where the top 0.1% own as much as the bottom 90%.

Perhaps the most ridiculous claim is that Bernie hasn’t accomplished enough.

This ignores the more than 200 bills he has co-sponsored that became law — including the 2014 Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act he negotiated with conservative lawmakers John McCain and Jeff Miller to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Trump loves that law so much, he often takes credit for it himself.)