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Related: About this forumWhy Trump Won’t Get Sanders’ Supporters
Why Trump Wont Get Sanders SupportersHes making a populist play for Bernie Bros in the Midwest, but the ideological differences are too great.
By BILL SCHER May 10, 2016
Sanders supports a carbon tax; Trump calls global warming a hoax. Sanders wants a $15 minimum wage; Trump has said our wages are too high. Sanders wants to jack the top income tax rate up to 54 percent; Trump wants to slash it to 25 percent.
Their foreign policies do not dovetail that neatly. Sanders anti-imperialist fans would not echo Trumps call to take the oil in Iraq. Nor would they want to authorize something beyond waterboarding for suspected terrorists, let alone take out their families.
Then there is the enormous gulf on race. Sanders has linked Trumps proposed ban on Muslims entering the country to Adolf Hitlers Holocaust, as a reminder what a lunatic can do by stirring up racial hatred. While Sanders rails against excessive police violence and mass incarceration; Trump has said the police are absolutely mistreated and endorsed a beating of a Black Lives Matter protester at one of his rallies, saying maybe he should have been roughed up.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/2016-donald-trump-bernie-sanders-supporters-bernie-bros-213881
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Why Trump Won’t Get Sanders’ Supporters (Original Post)
workinclasszero
May 2016
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Buddyblazon
(3,014 posts)1. Sounds like a daily affirmation from a Hillary supporter...
Y'all trying to convince us? Or yourselves?
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)2. More likely he'd get support from Dem third way gang. (corporate ass-kissers)
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. Trump won't get them, if Bernie is not the nominee. Some may go third party, write in or stay home.
Whether enough of them do one of those things remains to be seen.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280155607