Hillary’s Debt to Sanders and Trump
By Dorothy Rabinowitz
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It becomes clearer as the Sanders and Trump campaigns roll on how great the similarity is in the picture of America conjured by those two visionaries—an image of America the bleak, a broken society, weak, lost, oppressed by the weight of injustice and losing everywhere in the world, as Mr. Trump reports.
The two have in common, as well, their conspicuous resistance to all questions, all requests for some fragment of information on the specifics of their planned goals: to make America great again, folks (Mr. Trump’s trope), and a future we can believe in (Mr. Sanders’s).
Nothing was clearer in Mr. Sanders’s now famous April 1 meeting with the editorial board of the New York Daily News than that the last thing he expected to be demanded of a candidate representing so advanced a commitment to social justice was some acquaintance with facts, or specifics as to how one might go about the goal, say, of breaking up the big banks. Mr. Sanders’s wife would later tell a CNN interviewer that this meeting, with its questions, was akin to “an inquisition.”
Hillary Clinton’s high negatives in the polls notwithstanding, the difference between her level of knowledge, command of policy and experience compared with these two others is unlikely to be lost on Americans who have these many months witnessed the total absence of any such qualification in either her Democratic primary opponent, or the man who may well become the nominee of the Republican Party. That is just one of the reasons Mrs. Clinton would have for gratitude if Mr. Trump is in fact the nominee.
There is another reason that may well be more important. After long months of rage-mongering, the politics of gloom and the images of a broken America conjured by both Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump, Mrs. Clinton looks, by comparison, like a model of hope and shining optimism—no small claim, given those negatives. And no small advantage, either.
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Don't be jealous dears ... it makes you age faster.
Not that this endorsement matters too terribly much ... it's no game changer ... everybody already KNOWS that Bernie's not going to be the nominee, so who cares? Let it go.
