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3. Bryan lost. Of course McKinley wasn't quite Donald Trump.

From the tenor of the conversation here however I fully expect to hear Hillary is the same as Trump.

I heard very much the same in the year 2000, about a fellow named Al Gore. I would imagine that the families of the dead in Iraq might disagree as to whether the statement of equivalence in that case was a fair representation.

I really don't think that Mr. Sanders is anyone other than himself, and I respect his honesty to the extent that he claimed he wished to run a positive campaign, but from what I see here many of his supporters are making the world safer for the likes of Trump. It's almost uniformly negative.

That's very disturbing to me. To my thinking, if Sanders proves to be the sort of example that Bryan was, it would be far more tragic than even 2000, and 2000 was one of the most tragic political events of my lifetime, and I'm not young.