I think what scares the crap - and there's a lot of crap in right wingers - in the posts above is that Sen. Sanders is honest, the antithesis of all the demagogues in the clown car, and hasn't and won't change his stump speech by the demographics of his audience.
The guy is real, thoughtful and thought provoking. Fools will focus on a word: Socialism; those who understand their use of the word is a pejorative will listen to him, and understand that he is the first Pol to to call attention to the fact that America has become an Oligarchy under the control of the power elite.
The Great Threat to the Republic isn't Communism or Marxism of Socialism - for only the idiot fringe advocate such an extreme change, it is the modern equivalent of fascism ( an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization) where the rules and laws are made by the power elite, plutocrats in industry and on wall street.
Q. Could Sen. Sanders govern, or would he be run into by the Limbaugh, /Murdoch, Koch Propaganda Machine and the RED SCARE