2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WV Exit Polls: 44% of Sanders voters are Trump supporters [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)he is challenging two out of the three legs of the Republcians party and the third one is the anti establishment wing of the party. Yeah he is immensely wealthy, but his ideology is far from establishment thinking, I suspect though that in a board room he is far less shall we say bombastically out there? He is a symbol of a lot of things that are wrong with the country, and in a less star infatuated era he likely would not have gotten this far.
But he is far from establishment. That said, he is very dangerous to the establishment because he knows where a lot of the skeletons are buried and knows exactly how the graft works in the system. That makes him immensely dangerous, and appealing to those who think the system is broken.
For the record, in the GE, he is going to take on that graft and corruption that also infects the democrats. And that will anger many here who believe their party is pure as snow. Myself, will just take notes.
Unlike most folks here, yes I have taken a deep dive into his thinking... but that is my job as a reporter, and I did that with Cruz too,. and with both democrats, HRC and Sanders. This is an outsider, change election... I will not make any bets, Though I did start taking Trump very seriously before the MSM, well they don't really yet.
And Trump is one dangerous critter at multiple levels.
And if you think I am a rube for actually doing the work, let me tell you, you are the one not taking this man seriously and thinking still he is a joke.