Originally posted by jon-nyc:
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Originally posted by Daniel:
I agree with Paul Krugman. This almost never happens. He's making an important point. Bernie Sanders is not, 'the left's Trump.' He's not analogous to Trump at all, IMO. I think its a false equivalence. I've said this many times.
I don’t know, there are many similarities.
Like Trump he has tried to do a hostile takeover of the party. Like Trump, Bernie is benefiting from a large field of traditional candidates that have spent most of their efforts fighting each other in order to consolidate the anti-Bernie (Trump) support, while he compiles delegates. Both are spurned by party establishment and actively express hostility to it. Both running on economic populism. Both are objectively demagogic. Both attract and excite a fringe of unsavory people. Both told us which of our neighbors were the enemy from the very day they started running. I could go on.
