Trump knows how brilliant this is. He is shrewd. On steroids. I wish I had one-sixtieth of his shrewdness. And an equal measure of his chutzpah.
No kidding. If I were Trump, I’d have some BS-make-work job all lined up to offer Bernie at the right moment, i.e. when it is clear Hillary or whomever has the nomination. Pull him and his supporters onboard the Trump Train! He could be “Presidential Advisor for Youth Issues” or something equally bullcrappy, it’s not like you’d want Bernie anywhere near the levers of power but to get him out of the Senate and into some BS job where his idiot followers THINK he is, that would be genius.
Trump does a lot of smart things in handling the press but trying to pick off communist Bernie supporters instead of defending and explaining capitalism, contrasting and showing why communism and socialism never works would put the nail in the coffin of conservatives giving him a chance.
Trump has a golden opportunity to shine and show why America was great before socialist democrats started destroying it and why the base should support him . The problem is who Trump really is, is not republican and the more he moves left the less likely I am to vote for President. If he goes out and brown-noses communist I am out.
Rush is wrong about it being either/or with the Bernie kids versus the Cruz voters. The Cruz voters are concerned about social issues and the Constitution. He gave them the list of SCOTUS justices, and when social issues come up like men in the women’s bathroom, he just says, “leave it to the States”. If they can’t see that that is 1000 times preferable to Hillary Clinton forcing every single micro aspect of the left’s social agenda down their throats just to prove the point, then they’re nuts.
But the Bernie kids aren’t passionate about any of that. They’re pissed that their politicians have been bought off by foreign interests/crony capitalists, and thus they’re drowning in debt even as all of the jobs are either shipped overseas or taken by immigrants. Sanders has them because he’s not bought off, but Trump needs to explain that while he and Sanders agree on trade, socialism is ultimately not going to deliver the prosperity that they seek; only capitalism will. It’s a very easy argument to make because every square inch of the planet is testament to the truth of that; only the willfully blind can’t see it, and most of those kids have just been ill-informed by the education system. They’re not willfully blind.
It certainly should help him with the youth vote. Plenty of democrats are sick of Hillary too.