Trump gets trumped

In a FB IPS thread on Trump Mark thinks Trumps antics represent "a large section of the voting public." My reply:

You are mistaken that Trump is controlling "a large section of the voting public." Numerous polls show both Sanders and Clinton beating Trump in a general election, and Sanders with a wider margin. Trump appeals to a significant percentage (25%) of the Republican base, which base is about 50% of the population. Or about 15% at best of the entire voting public wants Trump. Frightening in itself, but not enough to win.

And btw, I've been calling out Clinton's faux progressism, and corporate Democrats, from the start. Not that Sanders is an angel, but the best candidate. And his policy statements and record, framed to motivate anger and justice in his base, have true majority support of the voting public as proven by repeated polls on Wall Street crime, minimum wage, tax policy etc.


Sanders, btw, is not a Democrat but an independent. Within the Democratic Party there are the true progressives, which belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus. And then there are the rest, pretty much Republican Lite, or like the Republicans of old.

LP is concerned about liberals making fun of Trump, that it might not be an effective strategy. Meanwhile, there is a video clip produced by al-Shabab, a group linked to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, of Trump proposing a US Muslim ban. He is an ISIS recruiting tool. Talk about effective framing...