Sanders Defends Socialism on ‘The Daily Show’: Soviet Union, Venezuela Aren’t Examples of ‘Failed Socialism’

RUSH EXCERPT:

YOUNG WHITE: "If everyone is poor, isn’t that kind of cool because we’re all experiencing the same thing. Like “Hey, the bread line was extra long today.” And I’ll be like, “Oh, yeah, it was. That guy is super observant.”
MARKOWICZ: "Not so much, no. I was born in the Soviet Union. My great-grandfather was killed in a gulag because he owned a business and socialists decided that was no longer legal."
YOUNG-WHITE: "That’s truly horrific. Would Bernie be sending small-business owners to forced labor camps?"
SANDERS: "Obviously, Soviet Union was an authoritarian society with no democratic rights, and if you know history, you know the democratic socialists fought and stood up against that. You can look at what existed in the Soviet Union and Venezuela, that is not what I’m talking about at all."
YOUNG-WHITE: "So no one is going to the gulag?"
SANDERS: "Well, except— no."
( Laughter ).