Noam Chomsky: Sanders platform similar to that of Eisenhower.

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3. Let's see. After Nixon were Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Obama.

I don't know how liberal Ford was, but Nixon was no liberal. Eisenhower and Nixon were part of the Republican shell shock resulting from having Democrats win five consecutive Presidential elections, with one man winning four of them something that was, and probably always will be, a one of a kind event in US history. It wasn't that Eisenhower and Nixon were liberal. Clearly, they were not. It was that they both wanted to be re-elected, they both wanted their stinking Hoover Party to have a shot at the White House after they left it, and they both had Democratic Congresses, courtesy of the very long and long-lived coattails of FDR.

Look into Nixon's history before he was Ike's VP. He was far from a liberal.