• grue@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Sanders is a populist, though – frankly, a much more genuine one than Trump. Populism isn’t always right-wing, nor is it always demagoguery.

    Sanders’ problem is that (again, being an actual populist instead of a fake one), his platform is very unprofitable for the corporate elite, including the media, and so they sabotage and character-assassinate him in every way they can.

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      6 days ago

      Sanders is a populist, though

      That’s true, but he’s not the right kind of populist for America.

      I remember going to a Bernie rally in Salt Lake City in 2016, during the Democratic primaries. The line to get into the rally was so long it took us an hour and to get in. He got a lot of people excited, and I was one of them. To this day it was the only political rally I’ve ever been to.

      But as popular as Bernie was, and still is, among a certain segment of America, he is equally hated and despised by other segments. Trump is the (faux) populist America chose. It’s because he’s an unapologetic capitalist. Americans would never vote for a socialist, even a populist one.

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          5 days ago

          They accepted him only because Republican voters vastly preferred him over the establishment candidate, Jeb!

          The same is not true of Bernie. He has a loyal base, but it’s not the majority of Democratic voters.