Ann Coulter feeling the Bern? The conservative commentator says Sanders has supported immigration policies that could earn him her vote, adding she’d be willing to overlook “the rest of the socialist stuff.” pic.twitter.com/8vH4LAWmVP
— Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (@FiringLineShow) April 17, 2019
On the Democrat side of the aisle, the establishment is in serious trouble for the first time. Unlike the GOPe that faced rebellion going back to Ron Paul in 2008 and suffered a massive defeat in 2016, the Democrat establishment nominated their candidate in 2016. President Goldman Sachs staffed his cabinet with Wall Street bankers and governed like an establishment insider on most issues. Speaker Pelosi, the consummate insider, still runs the House. Yet as the slow burn in the GOP exploded into Trump, so too will populism explode in the Democrat party.
The Guardian: Why the populist wave is setting the tone for Democratic candidates
Now Trump has become emblematic of the swamp he once promised to drain. The president has given tax cuts to America’s wealthiest, given his family White House portfolios, stacked his cabinet with friends and donors with a combined net worth estimated to be worth over $4bn, and overseen an administration that some historians argue is the most corrupt America has endured since the 1920s.Add hatred of the media. The media made all sorts of respectable people look like absolute fools over Russiagate. Can anyone seriously trust media outlets after this epic disaster? Institutional collapse will swiftly follow. The major media is going the way of the cassette tape and the brick-and-mortar bookstore. Independent journalism and social media exploded in 2016 and they will gain even more strength following Russiagate's conclusion. The establishment won't go down without a fight though. It tried inventing the "fake news" moniker to delegitimize social media and independent journalism, only to see the name stick to them within a week. Social media censorship has exploded in the past two years as establishment institutions try to gain control over free thought, free expression and actual journalism. All the while the establishment went all in on the ultimate "fake news", a coup attempt by narrative.
“All that is perfect terrain for a leftwing populist to pounce,” said Michael Kazin, a professor of history at Georgetown University and the author of a book on American populism.
I don't expect the "far-left" and "far-right" will find common ground and unite in 2020, but they will be hitting against common enemies. The media is in deep trouble, and if the populists on the left can get a candidate such as Bernie nominated, the campaign will be about who can best deliver on Trump's core 2016 promises. Bashing Drug companies, Big Tech, the media and banks/Federal Reserve, along with anti-immigration, anti-trade and healthcare reform in the direction of socialized medicine, will be the winning issues. Even if there is no political fusion, there will be a new center in American politics. The Narrative, the controlled conversation and manufactured consent created by the media, is finished.
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