Pat Buchanan is bullish on The Donald: compares Trump's campaign to that of Sanders

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Failed presidential candidate and World Net Daily columnist Pat Buchannan became the latest pundit to compare Donald Trump’s campaign to that of Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in an essay predicting the bombastic real estate mogul’s continued rise.

Buchanan likened Sanders’ popularity among parts of the Democratic base to Trump’s popularity among Tea Party Republicans, arguing that “the clearest message from the summer surge of Bernie Sanders and the remarkable rise of Donald Trump” is that “the American political class has failed the country, and should be fired”:

Buchanan noted the “great similarity” between Trump’s campaign and his own 1992 challenge to Republican incumbent George H.W. Bush. Buchanan, who ran on an extreme anti-illegal immigration platform and blasted multiculturalism during his presidential bid, argued that Trump’s campaign was a mix of his 1992 campaign’s xenophobic fearmongering and Bernie Sanders’ economic populism:

He’s exposing that and he’s hitting two of the really strong populist issues. One of them, there’s overlap with Bernie Sanders, and that’s the trade issue, the export of American jobs and factories, and what’s happening to the American middle class.

But the other one Trump is hitting, which is one of the hottest issues in the whole West, as well as the United States, is the massive invasion, if you will, of what people feel is the conquest of the West by massive third-world immigrations, coming from refugees, and border jumpers, and all the rest of them. He’s wired into both of these and they’re enormously popular issues.

(There is a video of a Meet the Press interview with Sanders under the title: Bernie Sanders: "My Campaign Is Not Like Donald Trump’s"').

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/28/pat_buchanan_is_bullish_on_the_donald_right_wing_pundit_predicts_trump_will_go_the_distance/

There is almost no similarity between the policies proposed by Trump (to the extent he actually discusses specific policies rather than ranting about hatred of Others) and the political ideas presented by Sanders.

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I see similarities in the two campaigns as well, and that ain't a good thing.