From this FB post:
"It’s instructive to compare Bernie’s rally in Savannah, Georgia last
night with Donald Trump’s rally in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday. Two
southern states, two populist aspirants for the presidency, two immense
crowds. But the two events and the two candidates couldn’t have been
further apart. Trump channels the anxieties of Americans into fear and
hate. Bernie channels them into hope and tolerance. Trump told the
white, middle-aged crowd he’d seal America’s borders against Mexicans
and Muslims. Bernie told a diverse, young crowd he’d make public
universities tuition-free and reduce incarceration. At Trump rallies,
black protesters are kicked and beaten by Trump’s white supporters. At
Bernie’s rallies, protesters are respected and heard.
"Yesterday, Trump
said of the treatment one black protester got in Birmingham, 'maybe he
should have been roughed up…. This is not the way Bernie Sanders handled
his problem, I will tell you, but I have a lot of fans and they were
not happy about it. And this was a very obnoxious guy, a troublemaker,
looking to make trouble.' Trump's right-wing populism poses a
clear and present danger to this nation. Bernie's left-wing populism
offers the only practical way forward. Rarely in American history has
the choice been this stark."
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