Here's what I can't square about Bernie Sanders's speech last night. On the one hand, he rails against "the movement toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country." He complains that 47 million people are in poverty, and that people are living on starvation wages. He says that the middle class is being destroyed. But then, he thanks Barack Obama and Joe Biden for "making progress" against all this, in spite of just about every other line in the speech that seemed to suggest these problems were getting no better and possibly worse. Are Obama and Biden making progress or not? No, of course they're not. Economic growth is sluggish. People have left the work force in record numbers. Things are not getting better at all. But if Sanders doesn't pretend to think Obama has made progress, he can't possibly make sense of his plea for people to vote for Hillary, who will double down on every ineffective policy Obama has pursued.

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