Bernie Sanders thinks he can strip the antiestablishment mantle from Trump by jonward11
Bernie Sanders’s refusal to join the Democratic Party for most of his career has given him outsider credibility with many voters. Yet, after 30 years in Congress, he is in some ways very much part of the political establishment.
Shakir said Democrats should be ashamed that Trump has brought middle-class, working people into the Republican Party tent, while the Democrats’ base is increasingly composed of the upper income and highly educated. What makes Sanders uniquely antiestablishment is that he wants to disentangle the financial establishment from the political establishment.
Story continuesThe Democratic Party has drifted from that focus — in the minds of anti-poverty crusaders like Sanders — since the mid-’80s when it started taking donations from corporations and Wall Street. Clintonism, in the minds of modern progressives, stands for the moment when political pragmatism and the need to keep up with Republicans in the arms race for political donations led them away from first principles.
Trump, in other words, promised to reform an economic and political system that many poor and working class see as rigged against them and in favor of the wealthy. But then he signed a tax bill that benefited corporations and the wealthy. He has also so far failed to support prescription drug reform already passed by House Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has declined to bring the bill, which is opposed by Big Pharma, to the floor.
This distinction is crucial to understanding the debate that could unfold between Trump, the incumbent president, and Sanders, if he becomes the nominee.
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