Cole Sprouse, Riverdale star slash podcast dramatist, has some thoughts about 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders. In a tweet posted Tuesday, February 25, Cole made the case that Sanders's vision for the United States, despite the rhetoric that’s been used to attack the candidate, isn’t really "radical." He further articulated what many have said about Sanders's beliefs, not only that they aren’t radical, it’s just that the systems he's proposing fixes to are extremely broken.

“Bernie Sanders is not a radical,” Sprouse wrote, before outlining how he thinks several of Sanders’s policies square with his own definition of radicalism. “Raising minimum wage is not radical. Pursuing health care for all is not radical. Pursuing higher education for all is not radical. Seeking legislation that protects our earth, our home, is not radical. The pursuit of equity is American.”

The policies Sprouse listed have all been central to Sanders’s campaign. The Vermont senator has made a $15 minimum wage — for which activists have been fighting for for years — part of his pledge to “Fight for Working Families.”

Medicare for all, a major overhaul of our health care system, was a signature Sanders issue in 2016, and now in 2020 as part of the candidate’s argument that health care is a human right.

On education, Sanders argues for tuition-free public colleges and universities and the cancellation of all student debt, something he’s also pushed for in Congress with the help of House representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

To protect the earth from the ongoing climate crisis, Sanders is an advocate for the Green New Deal, including on the campaign trail. He’s teamed up with Green New Deal champion Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and earned the support of major youth climate justice organizations like This Is Zero Hour and the Sunrise Movement.

Sanders himself has said that his policy platform isn’t radical; it’s about justice and dignity.

Cole is no stranger to talking politics. He’s been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, Sanders's opponent in the 2020 general election should he win the Democratic primary.

In 2017, Cole told HUNGER Magazine that he sees parallels between Riverdale and the political and social climate of our era, saying, "Riverdale was an interesting piece because it came from a comic that was based on the Golden America narrative — the perfect [idea of] America that has been historically proven to be untrue, very complicated, and socially terrifying for anyone that isn't a white man."

Clearly, Cole isn’t so nostalgic about the good ol’ days embodied in the Riverdale universe, and it seems he's quite forward-thinking.

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