Is of course, astonishingly one-dimensional. Michael Cohen puts it well:
"And by the way give the @NYDailyNews all the credit in the world for challenging Sanders & exposing the vast gaps in his policy knowledge."
"For me reading this interview is shocking. I know Sanders talks in platitudes, but he seems to think in them too."
"It's also evident that he is not conversant on any issue outside of income inequality & even there he just regurgitates his talking points."
"My wife put it well to me: running for POTUS is a serious thing. You need to bone up on the issues."
https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/717182036893630464
Joy Reid:
"If you distill the @NYDailyNews piece with the gloomy @nytimes read, you could conclude Sanders' campaign was at some pt, taken off course."
"One more note on that @NYDailyNews Sanders interview: I do think it is vintage Sanders; long on true belief, short on the "how."
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/717150146748932096
"He was a message candidate. Clearly at some point that changed and the "how" (plus going negative, against his original id) has tripped him."
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/717162209005146112
"He also happens to be running against someone who has spent decades wonking out about policy, and being a Democrat."
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/717162723042279425
Jamil Smith, puts his finger on something I think is very important to understanding Bernie's theory of politics:
"Sanders is displaying staggering confidence in his ability to convert supporter enthusiasm into actual policy. I wish it worked like that."
"The Sanders view of modern Republicanism betrays not a naïveté, but arrogance on his part. He's buying his own hype. http://bit.ly/1VaZjkf "
Much as I'm not a fan of Ryan Cooper-as a relentless Hillary basher-he did say something accurate a month back on Twitter.
We have two parties in the US but you could argue there are potentially four.
1. The Establishment GOP-supply side, Neocon, etc. They have about 15 percent support.
2. The Trump populist Right. More in the vein of a European Right wing party a la La Pen, they have about 30 percent popular support.
3. The Establishment Dems-what he calls 'neoliberal Dems' a la the Hillary Clinton wing of the party. The HRC wing has about 30 percent popular support.
4. The Bernie Sanders liberals. They are about 25 percent of the popular vote.
I think there is something to this. This means though that Bernie can't just convert the 75 percent who disagree with him.
Now some think we'd be better off with a European system with three or four parties. Yet, if you survey thinks in the UK, and many of the euro countries, I'm not so sure this is verdict you come to.
Often times, the rise of a more Left wing party ultimately serves to benefit the Right. In Europe, the Center Left is in retreat across the board.
"And by the way give the @NYDailyNews all the credit in the world for challenging Sanders & exposing the vast gaps in his policy knowledge."
"For me reading this interview is shocking. I know Sanders talks in platitudes, but he seems to think in them too."
"It's also evident that he is not conversant on any issue outside of income inequality & even there he just regurgitates his talking points."
"My wife put it well to me: running for POTUS is a serious thing. You need to bone up on the issues."
Joy Reid:
"If you distill the @NYDailyNews piece with the gloomy @nytimes read, you could conclude Sanders' campaign was at some pt, taken off course."
"One more note on that @NYDailyNews Sanders interview: I do think it is vintage Sanders; long on true belief, short on the "how."
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/717150146748932096
"He was a message candidate. Clearly at some point that changed and the "how" (plus going negative, against his original id) has tripped him."
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/717162209005146112
"He also happens to be running against someone who has spent decades wonking out about policy, and being a Democrat."
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/717162723042279425
Jamil Smith, puts his finger on something I think is very important to understanding Bernie's theory of politics:
"Sanders is displaying staggering confidence in his ability to convert supporter enthusiasm into actual policy. I wish it worked like that."
"The Sanders view of modern Republicanism betrays not a naïveté, but arrogance on his part. He's buying his own hype. http://bit.ly/1VaZjkf "
Much as I'm not a fan of Ryan Cooper-as a relentless Hillary basher-he did say something accurate a month back on Twitter.
We have two parties in the US but you could argue there are potentially four.
1. The Establishment GOP-supply side, Neocon, etc. They have about 15 percent support.
2. The Trump populist Right. More in the vein of a European Right wing party a la La Pen, they have about 30 percent popular support.
3. The Establishment Dems-what he calls 'neoliberal Dems' a la the Hillary Clinton wing of the party. The HRC wing has about 30 percent popular support.
4. The Bernie Sanders liberals. They are about 25 percent of the popular vote.
I think there is something to this. This means though that Bernie can't just convert the 75 percent who disagree with him.
Now some think we'd be better off with a European system with three or four parties. Yet, if you survey thinks in the UK, and many of the euro countries, I'm not so sure this is verdict you come to.
Often times, the rise of a more Left wing party ultimately serves to benefit the Right. In Europe, the Center Left is in retreat across the board.
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