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I'm going out on a limb here, but Bernie Sanders is not going to be our next president. Still, the independent socialist senator from Vermont is sounding more and more like a man who intends to defy the doubters and run. And he could play an important role in the campaign.

Sanders hasn't formally announced his candidacy; he hasn't even changed his party registration. (If he runs, it will be in the Democratic primaries.) But he's doing everything an aspiring candidate needs to do. He's traveled to Iowa and New Hampshire. He's signed up (provisionally) a high-powered campaign manager, Tad Devine, who worked on the presidential campaigns of John F. Kerry and Al Gore. He's buttonholing reporters with even more zeal than usual. And this week, he even submitted to the gentle ridicule of faux conservative Stephen Colbert to win seven minutes of national television time.

A self-described socialist! Colbert faux-sneered. Do you frighten people when you walk around the Capitol? Are they afraid you're going to take their tractor and give it to the whole village?

Hopefully we frighten the billionaire class, Sanders replied as a youthful studio audience cheered.

Get ready to hear Sanders repeat that phrase, the billionaire class, a lot. It's the core of his message, the theme that makes him passionate: his conviction that the wealthy have hijacked not only the economy, but also the political system.

There may not have been a major-party presidential candidate with so blunt a populist message on the economy since Franklin D. Roosevelt ran against economic royalists in 1936.

The biggest issue in the country is that we don't discuss the biggest issue in the country, Sanders told me in his Senate office last week.

How does it happen that today the economists tell us that 95% of all new income created in America goes to the top 1%? How does it happen that we have by far the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth, where one family, the Walton family of Wal-Mart, owns more wealth than the bottom 40% of the American people? How does that happen, and what do we do about it?

Sanders' answers on what to do come from a crisp checklist: Higher taxes on the wealthy, a much higher minimum wage, $1 trillion of new spending on roads and public transportation and European-style national health insurance (which he tries to make less foreign by calling it Medicare for all).

He's asking the right questions. The stagnation of middle class incomes in the midst of an economic recovery has become the central challenge for both political parties. Exit polls in this month's midterm elections found that 63% of all voters believe the U.S. economic system isn't fair to most Americans, but favors the wealthy.

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A Bernie Sanders candidacy could help Hillary Clinton

By Perry Bacon Jr.

Hillary Clinton is expected to announce in January that she will run for president, Democratic sources say, and the shape of that effort is becoming clear -- with a campaign operation headquartered in the New York City suburbs and a campaign message that plays up the possibility of electing the first female president much more so than in 2008.

Party sources emphasize there is still a small chance the former first lady will opt not to run, and some Democrats say there is no reason for her to begin a campaign so soon. But she is expected to begin preparation for a campaign over the next two months, while also giving speeches on some of her favorite causes, such as appearances at the Massachusetts Conference for Women and the League of Conservation Voters in December.

She could forgo forming an exploratory committee, a step she took in January 2007 during her last run, and simply declare that she is a candidate. Democratic operatives have spent months positioning themselves for places on her campaign staff, but its already clear that Clintons team will include voices from her husbands administration, such as former White House director of political affairs Minyon Moore, top aides from her last campaign like then-traveling chief of staff Huma Abedin and trip director Greg Hale, as well as some of her close advisers at the State Department, such as speechwriter Dan Schwerin.

A group called Ready for Hillary, which is officially unaligned with Clinton, is expected to fold, with some of its staff joining the official campaign operation. But the Democratic organization American Bridge, which has designated staffers for the last year to defending Clinton from conservative attacks, will remain, both to support Clinton and to critique the GOPs presidential field.

Democratic operatives close to Clinton are also beginning to consider what is expected to be one of the top challenges for the former first lady: distancing herself from an increasingly unpopular President Obama without offending the voters, particularly African-Americans, who elected him twice. The other challenge will be casting Clinton as a candidate of the future, with Republicans repeatedly suggesting the 67-year-old is too old. Clinton advisers view white women as the group where she can out-perform Obama, but Republicans are expected to compete much more for the votes of minority voters in 2016 than they did during Obamas campaigns.

This dynamics of this race will be much different for Clinton than in 2008. Back then, she faced a very tough primary, with the Democratic base wary of her support for the Iraq War, but she would have been a heavy favorite in the general election, which Obama won easily. Now, Clinton is the overwhelming favorite in the primary, but faces the challenge of trying to win the third straight presidential term for the Democrats.

Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are still strongly considering running against Clinton, but there is little sign that more powerful figures in the party, such as Vice President Biden or Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, will compete if the former first lady elects to start a campaign.

"Because so many seats Democrats had won in 2008 were up this year, I don't know how much of 2014 translates to 2016. But still the country is feeling more Republican, so that makes it somewhat harder for Hillary Clinton if she runs," said Mark Alexander, an associate dean and law professor at Seton Hall who was a senior adviser on Obama's 2008 campaign. "But the Republicans still have to come up with a good candidate, and they don't yet know who that is going to be."

If her speeches on the campaign trail this fall are any hint, Clinton will not be breaking much new ground on domestic policy during her presidential run. She has embraced President Obamas agenda, increasing the minimum wage, implementing the Affordable Care Act, expanding pre-kindergarten education, looking for policies that reduce the gap between the wealthy and the rest of America. Since she left the State Department, Clinton has hinted she would have taken a more aggressive stance in intervening abroad in nations like Syria, but its not clear she will make foreign policy a centerpiece of her campaign, as polls suggest most voters are much more concerned about the economy.

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In more than four decades as a New York City dentist, Irving Peress pulled teeth and filled cavities in unremarkable obscurity.

But for a few months 60 years ago, he was the focus of national attention: exhibit A in Sen. Joseph R. McCarthys campaign to warn the nation of the communist threat to the American way of life and the extent to which it had already penetrated the countrys vital institutions.

Dr. Peress, who died Nov.13 at 97, was a primary target in McCarthys drive to ferret out the communist fifth column in the U.S. Army, into which the dentist had been drafted during the Korean War.

He was commissioned an officer in 1952 and signed an oath affirming that he had never been a member of an organization that sought to overthrow the government by unconstitutional means.

But he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to protection against self-incrimination when asked if he had ever been a member of the Communist Party or any affiliated body. This got him put under Army surveillance, but he was promoted nevertheless from captain to major in October 1953.

An anonymous source told the Senates Government Operations Committee about it. McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican sitting on the committee and serving as chairman of its subcommittee on investigations, decided to hold hearings into communist saturation of the Army.

He wanted to know: How could someone under surveillance for communist connections get a promotion in the Army? This looked like yet another example of coddling communists, the senator said, adding that there was somewhere at the Pentagon a secret master who had somehow engineered Dr. Peresss promotion.

In hotbeds of anti-communism around the nation, the question was asked: Who promoted Dr. Peress?

Several times during his testimony before McCarthys committee, Dr. Peress invoked the Fifth Amendment. McCarthy called him a Fifth Amendment communist. Dr. Peress said anyone attacking him for exercising this right was himself guilty of subversion. He repeated that he never sought the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.

To McCarthy, Dr. Peress remained the key to the deliberate Communist infiltration of our Armed Forces.

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