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There’s a quotation you’re going to want to commit to memory for the next two years. It may be the single greatest piece of ammunition against the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., himself gave it to us.

Where to even begin here? There’s just so much goodness to unpack. First is the obvious irony of Bernie discovering the joys of economic success fueled by creating a popular product, and then there’s the notion that he didn’t just become a millionaire, but also stayed one. If Bernie wants to get serious about Medicare For All, he ought to donate to the U.S. government, which citizens have been permitted to do since 1843. Besides, his single-payer plan is conservatively estimated to cost $32.6 trillion in its first decade alone. Time to start racking up the revenue!

But all jokes aside, there’s something truly infuriating in what Bernie reveals here. It’s not just the flagrant hypocrisy of lambasting millionaires while becoming one — it’s how he became one.

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Bernie hasn’t created a single job for anyone in his entire life. He spent around seven years in between graduating from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in political science and attempting to enter public life. In that time, he worked as an aide in a psychiatric hospital, taught preschoolers, registered people for food stamps for a nonprofit, and had a carpentry company, though he wasn’t much of a carpenter. In 2015, his friend Jim Rader told the New Yorker, “They advertised in the Village Voice, but didn’t know much about carpentry. They’d go to the hardware store to buy supplies, and ask the clerk how to do the repairs they’d been hired to do.”

Oh, he was also kicked out of a hippie commune in 1971 for not contributing to work duties. And he took the hint — the following year, he ran for governor of Vermont and for the U.S. Senate.

And that’s it. For nearly the past half century, Bernie’s either been running for public office or holding it, with the sole exception of a three-year stint making low-budget films, including a 30-minute love letter to socialist Eugene Debs. He’s been the mayor of Burlington, a member of the House of Representatives, a senator, and the nation’s most prominent purveyor of socialism.

And he used all of that to become a millionaire.

Bernie has spent his entire career vilifying job creators and the capitalist system solely responsible for the single great economic expansion and elimination of poverty in human history. And he essentially achieved the American Dream as a result of it.

Conservatives can mock his three homes all they want, but it’s the best-selling book, built off of 50 years of lies and propelled by the taxpayer dime, that should really attract your ire.