Here Are The 'Outside The Box' Progressive Ideas 2020 Democrats Are Pitching
When Bernie Sanders went on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert a week ago, he took a victory lap for his agenda.
"A few years ago when we said that healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and that we should create a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system, I was told I'm crazy, it's extreme, I'm a fringe guy," Sanders said. "Seventy percent of the American people, in the last polls I've seen, now support Medicare for all."
He went on to list other issues where he believes he's led the Democratic Party left: advocating a $15 per hour minimum wage, spending on infrastructure, abortion rights.
Sanders may not be responsible for these policies taking hold — Democrats have been moving left for years — but he hit on a clear trend that's emerging among Democrats' top presumptive 2020 contenders: they've been putting forward a steady stream of uber-progressive economic policies — some of which would have been unthinkable for mainstream candidates a few presidential cycles ago.
