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In reply to the discussion: Feinstein: "Trump is right" [View all]beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Let me break it down for you:
1) Bernie used Trump's admission that Australia has a better health care system to point out his hypocrisy. It's called hoisting someone on their own petard, (that's from Hamlet btw) it means to use ones words against them. Bernie also used Trump's quote to promote universal health care in this country.
2) Even if your analogy was accurate it would only work if there was no outrage about Bernie supposedly agreeing with Trump, and there were multiple threads criticizing him for it even though he was using Trump's words against him.
But Bernie never actually praised Trump so your your analogy is false. His use of Trump's words against him perfectly exposed Donny's hypocrisy, good thing Bernie knows his Hamlet! I quite enjoyed the video and am glad he didn't let the opportunity pass.
But back to the main point - if no one ever criticized Bernie there would be a double standard but I think we can all agree that he gets criticized as much if not more than others.
Hope that helps.