Bernie Sanders, Senator “from” Vermont, a self-proclaimed democratic Socialist (and officially an Independent though he seems as deeply involved in Democratic Party politics as ever), has said “I quit.”

Not all at once, of course. As the Independent reports, he “likely” won’t run again for a fourth term in 2030, when his recently-won term ends. He’s been in Congress since 1991 and in the Senate since 2007. In other words, the internet didn’t really exist when he first went to Washington. The papers call him a Progressive, but if anyone fits the definition of “Regressive” it is Mr. Bernie. As for “Independent” – well, he caucuses (plots) with Senate Democrats. And he ran for the Dem nomination for the White House in 2016 and 2020. Admittedly, it was the Democratic power structure that kicked him in the teeth both times, in favor of dear Hillary and Uncle Joe.

So the news outlets, as usually, get it wrong. He will bedevil the Senate and even the Democratic Party for some time to come.

So far, at least, he hasn’t shown signs of senility or Alzheimers, but six years is a long time for someone his age. And some would argue that it takes someone with mental problems to spout all the political nonsense he does.

But he has helped significantly to push the American Democratic party farther and farther into Woke “liberalism” (which it is not, but most people accept their claims). More and more radical, more like the leftwing political parties of Europe, and closer in many aspects to his beloved Soviet Union.

It is very odd to a lover of liberty to see the once proud, independent, and liberty-minded Green Mountaineers of Vermont support a man like this.

But that is as it is: all of New England has grown less and less desirous of freedom in the past 200+ years. They have not, at least, embraced conservatism, but Vermonters’ politics finds a natural leader and spokesman in Sanders.

Assuming that (a) Sanders actually makes it another six years to age 89, and (b) he really does quit then, whatever replaces him in the US Senate is likely to be even more an enemy of liberty than he is. There are, after all, a few things he believes and supports that do encourage and protect liberty. But he is in many, many ways, the American epitome of a Transnational Progressive, a Tranzi.