Sanders to Rally: ‘Trump Won’t Take on Establishment, We Will’

Although rejecting a racist does not seem like something a president should have to be convinced of, Sanders made his appeal to Trump during a speech in Washington D.C. His colleagues, he said, would be better served by picking their fights selectively. “Senator Chuck Schumer of NY, elected Wednesday as the new Democratic minority leader, has spoken with Mr. Trump several times, and Democrats in coming weeks plan to announce populist economic and ethics initiatives they think Mr. Trump might like”.

After Clinton’s loss, many disaffected Democrats alleged that had only Bernie Sanders been nominated, Trump would never find himself president-elect.

In other words, Trump miraculously won the Electoral College despite adversarial media and hostile Democratic and Republican establishments. By reformulating the old Republican messages to include so-called fair (rather than free) trade, by leaving Social Security alone and by promising to create more jobs, Trump plucked millions of lower- and middle-class voters from the Democratic Party. No matter what the DC consultants said, he instinctively understood that most Americans see the political class as a problem rather than the solution.

This strain of magical thinking led Hillary’s devotees to ignore key data which foretold a Trump victory.

Bernie Sanders, “She has a very important role to play in the future of the Democratic Party”. That’s virtually all of the middle class.

“What we are seeing all over this country is extraordinary fear”, Sanders said at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. Inequality has gone up.

How did we get here?

Politicians like Bernie Sanders and citizens alike are calling for Bannon to be banned from the White House due to his history as a racist who actively and publicly pushes an alt-right agenda. Both Sanders and Schumer are Jewish.

“Let me be clear – I happen to think that Donald Trump is a very smart person, and he would not have been elected president if he were not a very smart person”. And I will not compromise with sexism. “There are areas I would have hoped that in 2016 we would have put behind us”.

Sanders says Democrats will hold Trump accountable for his campaign promises. After her defeat last week, Sanders said he did not talk to her directly, only on a conference call. Sanders suggested that is a mistake. Recreational Marijuana passed in just about every state that had it on the ballot, Colorado, Maine and others voted to increase the minimum wage, Nevada voted overwhelmingly in favor of expanding firearm background checks, Californians voted in favor of introducing a measure to review the Citizens United Supreme Court case, and Arkansas became the first bible-belt state to approve medical marijuana. And we’re going to be laser-focused on communicating with folks what it is we are working on and standing up for. The other addition to the Senate leadership is West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a rabid protectionist who has discussed switching to the Republican Party. They are frustrated by his influence within a party that he refuses to embrace. The Times report continues: “Senator Chuck Schumer of NY, elected Wednesday as the new Democratic minority leader, has spoken with Mr. Trump several times, and Democrats in coming weeks plan to announce populist economic and ethics initiatives they think Mr. Trump might like”.

One thing that is not part of the Sanders plan is a charm offensive.

A few times he answered a question by referring reporters to the final chapter in his book, titled “Corporate Media and the Threat to Our Democracy”.

Who is left now to rebuild the Democratic Party? In a new book called “Our Revolution”-the same name as an organization he has established-Sanders tells his story in his signature, no-nonsense style, from his humble origins in Brooklyn, N.Y.to his career as a Vermont senator, his decision to run for president, the complex and daunting challenge of organizing a campaign, and finally, the issues before us that desperately need fixing”.