13088972, You like Bernie's faux-populism more than Trump's faux-populism. Cool.
Posted by stravinskian, Tue Nov-01-16 09:20 AM
Most American voters don't, though. Trump's brand of faux populism sells much better.
>Hillary is struggling to beat the worst candidate in modern
>presidential politics - and it's because her unfavorables are
>historic.
It's funny that you think Trump is a bad candidate. Just because he's a monster doesn't mean he's a bad candidate. Republicans win by exploiting people's hunger for simple answers. And nobody in modern politics works up the rubes more effectively than Donald Trump. Case in point:
>Bernie wouldn't have to deal with this kind of onslaught
>because he doesn't toe/cross the line like the Clintons (nor
>does Obama, btw).
>
>You never have seen Obama involved in theses kinds of scandals
>and/or inquiries of impropriety
Did you happen to see the 2008 campaign? Or the 2012 campaign? Or the approval numbers that he's had for most of his presidency? Benghazi was an Obama "scandal" before it became a Clinton "scandal."
>- and it's certainly not
>because trolls didn't try their hearts out to find dirt on
>him. He just didn't toe/cross the line like Clinton has
>done.
No, he just happened to be running at a time when it was fresh on people's minds how dangerous the Republican platform is, rather than a time when liberals have such hubris that they think the public will follow them wherever they want to go.
>The danger here is that her staunchest defenders can *never*
>admit that there's something off about how she has conducted
>herself.
It's easy to be dubious of such claims when her attackers, from the right and from the left, put so much more effort into pushing lies and insinuations about her than into coming up with any kind of plausible policy arguments.
>They can't even admit that her saying we should have
>"determined the winner" in the Palestine elections was
>problematic. The 'she can do no wrong in my eyes' camp are
>setting us up for an Administration who doesn't have to hold
>itself accountable.
Putting aside the obvious questions about your factual assertion, if you actually think THAT is the kind of issue that matters to voters in 2016, then you're a living example of exactly the kind of hubris that will hand Obama's legacy to Donald Trump.
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