Unlike chicken Republican candidates, Sanders not afraid to hammer Trump

[Douglas Carpenter]

Sanders calls out Trump for having no plans to help working class. The Donald responds in usual way: with lies.

by Sean Illing


Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders (Credit: AP/Charlie Neibergall/Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich/Photo montage by Salon)

On CBS’ “Face The Nation” this weekend, Bernie Sanders made an obvious but important point about Donald Trump: When you cut through the bombast and the xenophobia, Trump’s campaign offers nothing to the working-class conservatives who support it. As I wrote a few weeks ago, “Most Trump supporters, if they weren’t blinkered by racism, would be supporting someone like Bernie Sanders, who actually represents their economic interests.”



On “Face The Nation,” Sanders addressed this directly to host John Dickerson:

“Trump’s supporters are working-class people and they’re angry, and they’re angry because they’re working longer hours for lower wages, they’re angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other low-wage countries, they’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity. …. Meanwhile, interestingly enough, John, this is a guy who does not want to raise the minimum wage. In fact, he has said that he thinks wages in America are too high. But he does want to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to top three-tenths of one percent. So, I think for his working class and middle class supporters, I think we can make the case that if we really want to address the issues that people are concerned about why the middle class is disappearing, massive income and wealth inequality in this country that we need policies that bring us together that take on the greed of Wall Street, the greed of corporate America, and create a middle class that works for all of us rather than an economy that works just for a few.”

It was encouraging to see Sanders tackle this head-on. Trump is skating through a Republican primary without presenting anything resembling a solution or policy. He remains an empty vessel onto which angry white people can project their working-class resentment. More importantly, Trump has become a populist champion for blue-collar whites and no one on the Right has noted the obvious contradictions girding his campaign.

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[awake]

1. Sanders will be hard to hit for Trump or any GOP candidate

Bernie has not flipped or Flopped he has held the same views for 40 years, he can not be burned by being called a Socialist because his is proud of the title Democratic Socialist. When most people hear his ideas they agree with them. Bernie Sanders may be our strongest Candidate.

[JackInGreen]

2. K&R

Everything I and others have screamed from the galleries for years. Put plain. Made coherent and on point. Fantastic.

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. kik