Let me see if I’m following… Pete’s running well to the left of Obama. Obama oversaw a huge expansion of Medicaid. The last administration that tried to make any change to social security was Bush 2, and that failed completely due to widespread backlash. But we’re supposed to believe Pete would gut these popular programs because… he shares the view of most mainstream economists that budget deficits matter to some degree? Really? This feels about as serious as the claim that, “Bernie wants to make America into Venezuela.”