Daniel Drezner argues that Bernie is as simplistic in his own way as Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/01/19/the-cruel-irony-of-the-one-note-presidential-campaigns/
It's true their campaigns are both very simplistic where every problem is a nail. For Trump the answer is getting rid of the immigrants, for Bernie it's campaign finance reform.
But even more than Trump I think the apt comparison for Bernie is Ted Cruz.
They are both True Believer ideologues who care more about ideological symbolism than in getting things done. True their ideology is different. But neither does much to actually advance it by passing actual bills.
Cruz is notorious as the man who largely singlehandedly forced the GOP into a shutdown it never wanted back in 2013.
But Bernie has been surprisingly ineffective in 26 years in Congress-including the last 10 in the Vermont Senate. He has failed to in anyway build a party coalition of 'democratic socialists' and therefore is stuck using the Democratic party who Bernie is not a fan of an the feeling is mutual.
And he's passed very few bills. What does it matter supporting policies x,y, and z if you can't actually pass and implement them?
Why is it that even Peter Shumlin, his own Vermont Governor who is sympathetic to single payer is supporting Hillary Clinton?
If Bernie can't even get the support of those who agree with him, how's he ever get things done with those who don't?
There is some talk that the GOP Establishment may prefer Trump after all-if the only two choices are Trump and Cruz.
I think Trump's criticism of Cruz underscores exactly why:
"Washington Times: "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is stepping up his attacks on [Ted Cruz] declaring on Monday: 'Everybody hates Ted.' 'He's very unpopular in Washington,' Mr. Trump said on 'Fox and Friends. When you have somebody that can’t get along with anybody in Washington, you’re not going to get deals done,' Mr. Trump said. 'I mean, you have to get deals done -- we can't always keep invoking executive orders like Obama does, [because] he can't get deals.'"
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/01/19/the_latest_salvos_in_cruz_vs_trump
That sounds like Bernie who also is too pure to actually get anything done. Then he's surprised when major liberal groups endorse her over him?
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-attacks-planned-parenthood-and-human-rights-campaign-after-they-fail-to-endorse-him/23614/
So he then slurred Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign as just 'establishment groups.'
So now he is also scorning Planned Parenthood? Once again: sounds like Ted Cruz.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/01/19/the-cruel-irony-of-the-one-note-presidential-campaigns/
It's true their campaigns are both very simplistic where every problem is a nail. For Trump the answer is getting rid of the immigrants, for Bernie it's campaign finance reform.
But even more than Trump I think the apt comparison for Bernie is Ted Cruz.
They are both True Believer ideologues who care more about ideological symbolism than in getting things done. True their ideology is different. But neither does much to actually advance it by passing actual bills.
Cruz is notorious as the man who largely singlehandedly forced the GOP into a shutdown it never wanted back in 2013.
But Bernie has been surprisingly ineffective in 26 years in Congress-including the last 10 in the Vermont Senate. He has failed to in anyway build a party coalition of 'democratic socialists' and therefore is stuck using the Democratic party who Bernie is not a fan of an the feeling is mutual.
And he's passed very few bills. What does it matter supporting policies x,y, and z if you can't actually pass and implement them?
Why is it that even Peter Shumlin, his own Vermont Governor who is sympathetic to single payer is supporting Hillary Clinton?
If Bernie can't even get the support of those who agree with him, how's he ever get things done with those who don't?
There is some talk that the GOP Establishment may prefer Trump after all-if the only two choices are Trump and Cruz.
I think Trump's criticism of Cruz underscores exactly why:
"Washington Times: "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is stepping up his attacks on [Ted Cruz] declaring on Monday: 'Everybody hates Ted.' 'He's very unpopular in Washington,' Mr. Trump said on 'Fox and Friends. When you have somebody that can’t get along with anybody in Washington, you’re not going to get deals done,' Mr. Trump said. 'I mean, you have to get deals done -- we can't always keep invoking executive orders like Obama does, [because] he can't get deals.'"
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/01/19/the_latest_salvos_in_cruz_vs_trump
That sounds like Bernie who also is too pure to actually get anything done. Then he's surprised when major liberal groups endorse her over him?
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-attacks-planned-parenthood-and-human-rights-campaign-after-they-fail-to-endorse-him/23614/
So he then slurred Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign as just 'establishment groups.'
So now he is also scorning Planned Parenthood? Once again: sounds like Ted Cruz.
You know we Democrats have enjoyed a lot of schadenfreude watching the GOP primary with the rise of Trump and Cruz.
But if our party truly does blow it by nominating a purely ideologically symbolic candidate like Bernie the joke will be on us.
The Emoprogs seem determined to do to the party nationally what they did in Maine in helping Paul Lapage get elected twice by both times pushing third party independent purer progressives.
If we blow this we have only ourselves to blame.
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