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Stephen Zunes – Can “Socialist” Bernie Prevail Over “Antisocialist” Trump?A Middle East Expert Weighs in On the Conflict in the “Middle West”Aired Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM ESTInterview with USF Professor and Middle East Scholar Stephen Zunes“It’s time for the Democratic Party to become democratic.” — Swami BeyondanandaWith Bernie Sanders surging into the lead as we come to Super Tuesday, the “stop Bernie” forces on the moderate side insist that Bernie can’t win in November. But, what if he is the ONLY candidate who can truly overwhelm Trump?Can his movement of young people inspired to vote counterbalance those “moderate Republicans” who might switch from Trump to either a Biden or a Bloomberg?Weighing in on this issue on Wiki Politiki Radio is scholar and Middle East scholar Stephen Zunes, who recently wrote a piece for Truthout debunking the idea that a progressive candidate cannot win the general election. Zunes, who as a teenager worked for the George McGovern campaign, insists the c