An Interview with Matt Taibbi worth reading in full. Bernie is careful to avoid some of the pitfalls that have befallen many of us (myself included) in our last three weeks in the Mirror Universe. No Hillary bashing, no assertions he could’ve won, and no false binary between defending people of color, women, Muslims, and the LGBT community and advocating for all working class Americans. Worth reading in full and sharing!
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Peter Porcupine says
They live in a bubble, talk about their world, worry about who’s going to be running 18 years from now for office. Meanwhile, people can’t feed their kids.
I have said before that Trump and Sanders were in many ways the same person.
jconway says
Otherwise I agree they attracted a similar discontented following and offered easy to digest solutions for ordinary people to regain their agency from the party of Davos.
The other lesson he took away from Trump is that a radical and bold message is more appealing than a bland and inoffensive one. I want to offend people! But let’s offend the banks and corporate liberals who defend them, let’s welcome the hatred as Roosevelt did of the economic royalists.
I don’t want to scapegoat minorities, gays, muslims, or women for the robbing of the middle class. They are victims as much as the rest of the working class for the shellacking Wall Street has doled out. But the middle class was robbed these last 40 years and it’s time for Democrats to be honest about why and who is really responsible. Sanders and Warren get this. Tim Ryan gets this.
Does Nancy Pelosi? Does Chuck Schumer? I hope so.
johntmay says
Sanders believes it is a mistake to dismiss the Trump movement as a monolithic expression of racism and xenophobia. Trump’s populist appeals, sincere or not, carried the day, and Democrats need to answer them.