Posted on 03/09/2020 6:23:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
You may have noticed a curious trend recently, usually exhibited by "moderate" progressive pundits, which involves comparing the candidacies of Donald Trump in 2016 and Bernie Sanders in 2020. The most recent I've seen is by Andrew Sullivan at New York Magazine, where he celebrates the Democratic establishment having consolidated power behind the embarrassingly senile Joe Biden, which effectively crippled Bernie's candidacy on Super Tuesday. "If only Trump's rivals had exercised that discipline in the GOP primaries four years ago," Sullivan playfully muses.
Like the Democrats in 2020, he argues, the Republicans in 2016 faced an "insistent and ascendant insurgency from its populist wing," but the GOP was "unable to winnow the field and coalesce behind a single opponent to Trump, then staggering backward into submission."
The purpose of such comparisons is painfully easy to discern. The suggestion is that Bernie, like Trump, is a "populist*" radical, an outsider who is out of touch with the American people, and a danger to the future of our nation and its institutions. A "functioning" political party would act in its own institutional "self-defense" to thwart those kinds of threats, Sullivan argues. The argument seems to be that the GOP failed to heed the sober admonitions of #NeverTrump by failing to strangle the Trump campaign in the cradle, but the Democrats aren't making that mistake with Bernie.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’ve never heard.
Yep! Following the constitution is “radical”! Now you’ve heard!
Trump is a Nationalist and a Protectionist which are core principles of the modern Patriot.
No moral equivalence.
Burny is a crazy, worthless, parasite loser Trump is a rational, productive, winner.
Trumped tapped into a majority popular segment that was not being represented... Bernie is basically the same old leftist radicals that have been around forever, only difference is now our public schools are so inept and are such propaganda factories that there are more young folks falling for the crap than ever.
Who made that claim?
I would call President Trump a common sense pragmatist.
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