Hillary Clinton? For some reason I want to hear Pat Benatar’s “The Victim.” /sarcasm.
I had the opportunity of voting against Hillary twice (ABC = Anybody But Clinton). I voted for Sanders in the primaries and for Trump in the general.
> Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday chalked up the fact that some of his supporters during 2016’s Democratic primaries eventually voted for Donald Trump in the general election to “the nature of politics.” <
Trump’s supporters and Bernie’s supporters have at least two things in common: they both are against NAFTA, and they both want to see manufacturing jobs return to America.
Trump would have been wise to exploit this going forward. Exploit this crack in the Democrat party. But Trump decided to insult Sanders instead, calling him “crazy” in tweets.
For the life of me, I don’t understand why Trump did that. There’s no upside to it. No Bernie Bro is going to read Trump’s tweets and say “By golly. Trump is right. Bernie is crazy.”
But plenty of them will be turned off, and maybe drift back to the traditional Democratic party.
Side story:
Many years ago, I was talking to a colleague at work. In the course of our conversation, he said something very vulgar about Ronald Reagan. He lost me right there, as The Gipper is one of my heroes. I was no longer motivated to go out of my way to help this colleague.
My colleague made a stupid error. Trump is doing the same thing re Bernie.
Imagine how critical Bernie might be if he hadn’t sold out?
I don't like Sanders politics but you have to admit he is a likable person.