Bernie Sanders Has A Message For Disenchanted Trump Voters

[UCmeNdc]

Source: Crooks and Liars

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) delivered a fiery joint rally on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The object of their scorn? Trump's new National Economic Council director, Gary Cohn.

"[Trump said] we are going to send the special interests packing, and we are going to once again have a government of the people and for the people," Sanders reminded attendees.

Sanders is now calling on Trump voters to hold the billionaire they elected accountable.

"The truth is, [Trump told] very, very cynical lies appealing to working families all over the country: draining the swamp, taking on Wall Street," he said. "But the reality is today that he has more billionaires in his administration than any president in American history."



Read more: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/03/bernie-sanders-has-message-disenchanted

[Achilleaze]

1. Hold republican politicians accountable

Damn straight. Enough with the lies, the corruption, and the FAIL. Republicans need to serve the American taxpayers who are paying their freaking salaries.

[ehrnst]

2. Interesting how Elizabeth Warren is left out of the headline.

Hoping we are moving past this sort of thing.

[NurseJackie]

4. Yep. It's a laughably obvious snub AND fawning flattery that's not even LBN...

... it may be dated today, but this happened several days ago.

Hoping we are moving past this sort of thing.

I hope the same. Twenty eighteen isn't that far away.

[nini]

5. THAT drives me crazy

and I see it all the time.

[Saviolo]

3. Oooh... did Bernie give Trump enough rope?

Because it looks like he's going to hang himself.

Trump tried to position himself as a strong candidate and an alternative to Bernie against Hillary in the election for Bernie voters that felt disenfranchised. There was a small group of uninformed Bernie supporters who bought that, but I think that mostly it resonated with people who were already supporting Trump.

But now Trump looks weak. W E A K. That was his whole thing, that he was strong, a great negotiator, a strong leader. That was the shtick. But now he looks weak to his own base. So, now Bernie has the opportunity to sweep in and say to those Trump voters who are realizing that he's not the strong man they thought they were voting for.

And Trump has given Bernie all the ammunition he needs to coax a bunch of those uninformed and disappointed Trump voters across the aisle. By loudly preaching that he was an alternative to Bernie, he's planted the seed in those deplorables that maybe they should be listening to Bernie.

If they're willing to learn and take up progressive causes, we should welcome them and educate them. They won't be good allies at the beginning, but you gotta educate!

[muriel_volestrangler]

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[George II]

7. When did a three day old story become "Latest Breaking News"? The "report" linked is current, but..

...it's about something that happened on Wednesday and is a commentary, not "news".

[SMC22307]

8. They'll turn on him. We just need Sanders, Warren, et al...

to continue hammering away. Like with Dubya, about 30 (?) percent are too far gone to reason with, but the rest aren't.

[beam me up scottie]

10. All we need are the independents.

We can appeal to workers who've been getting shafted thanks to Republican policies. The hard core bigots will never vote for a Dem but I honestly believe we can easily reach disaffected voters who live paycheck to paycheck.

[SMC22307]

12. They'll be even more disaffected when they realize Drumpf's...

done jack-shit to help them and they're still living paycheck to paycheck. If Bernie can venture into Deep Red, West-by-God-Virginia and get through to voters, it CAN be done. Perez, Ellison, et al. better be paying attention

[beam me up scottie]

13. Precisely. This is where we need to be pro-active.

Take advantage of their resentment - show workers who's fault it really is their paychecks are shrinking and their jobs are disappearing. The anger is already there - we just need to refocus it. We won't even need to lie to them like Trump did, just hammering the truth will be effective if we do it often enough and loudly enough.

Keith Ellison seems to know how to do this - he managed to keep his seat even when many other formerly blue areas went red last year. We can reach them.

[beam me up scottie]

11. Outstanding work by Elizabeth and Bernie!

We need more of this - loud, proud and unabashedly progressive!