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Bernie Sanders, the 78-year-old coot seeking the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, has forever put himself out to the voting public as a “democratic socialist.”

That’s code-speak for commie.

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Socialism has never truly had a long-lasting run, but communism has.

Think Russia and China.

Sanders is therefore a perfect foil to take on the big, orange-haired lug in the Oval Office who bathes in his capitalist successes while Sanders’ political platform is based on giving everything away free as if he actually believes it’s all truly “free” — as in no cost whatsoever.

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That was Vladimir Lenin’s pitch back in 1917 on his way to co-founding what would become the United Soviet Socialist Republic, maturing into a much-feared superpower with atomic bombs and big guns.

The Cold War was not fun times.

Bernie Sanders, an admitted admirer of Lenin, hooked up with veteran political aide Mary Jane O’Meara while he was the mayor of Burlington, Vt., and the two spent their “honeymoon,” not in Paris, the romantic City of Lights, but in the dark communist capital of Moscow.