03-02-2021, 02:42 PM
(03-02-2021, 02:21 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Actually there one big difference. Trump won the nomination of his party while the extremist in the Democratic party don't have enough support to take the lead.
So a much larger percentage of Republicans support the crazy extremist of their party.
There's a lot out there to support the idea that the DNC prevented Bernie Sanders a fair chance at securing the nomination in 2016.
Although politically polar opposites, I do think both Trump and Sanders represented a sort of anti-astiblishment candidate for their respective parties.
Also, I think it's worth noting that while Trump's personality may be categorized as extremist (I think clownish is a better word) his policies are/were not when held up to party standards. In fact, he's more moderate on quite a few things than GOP candidates had been in the past.
I just think a lot of Americans are tired with a lot that makes up politics in this country, the Mitt Romney, the Hillary Clinton's, the Jeb Bush's, etc. I also think many of them have a lot more in common then what the current represented climate suggests. The good news is I still think many of them realize this.