(02-23-2020, 11:24 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(02-23-2020, 10:44 AM)mikesez Wrote: If we get to watch the elite mouthpieces get shoved aside by Democratic Party voters four years after the voters shoved aside Republican party elites, picking a candidate that supposedly couldn't win, that would be poetic justice.

With two glaring exceptions: Trump was a complete political outsider while Bernie is a lifelong governmental bureaucrat who has never generated a single job or penny of wealth in his life. Yeah, yeah, we can count his book that was most likely bought in truckloads by PACs (and a generous advance) to bolster his bottom line and credibility.  

The other is Trump went on to election victory because he challenged the crooked and incestuous leftist cabal between the deep state government and media - a challenge that a huge number of voters in this country agree with. He didn't play by their established rules, and still doesn't. Bernie's ideas are considered radical by many moderate liberals. Do they completely disagree with his basic principles? Nope, but Bernie committed another sin by openly stating, and running, on the ultimate goal. Bernie is just a lesser cog in the Democrat machine.

To me the biggest difference is that the Republicans made it possible get a majority of delegates without getting a majority of voters. Trump only got 45% of the votes in the 50 Republican primary elections, but he controlled the convention outright without needing other candidates to endorse him. 
If Bernie only has 45% of the vote, and none of the other candidates decide to throw their support to him, it will be a brokered convention.
Bernie's path to the nomination is harder than Trump's was.
I agree that Trump has owned many different businesses, and Bernie has owned none, but I don't think that matters much. This country has tens of thousands of landlords and hundreds if not thousands of golf courses, but it only has 100 senators.
And I don't think Bernie is part of any liberal media cabal. For instance, the media is making a big deal about Bernie's comments regarding Cuba. That's fair enough, but Obama said the same kind of stuff about Cuba, and the media did not make a big deal about it.  To the extent that the liberal media plays favorites, Bernie has never been one of their favorites.

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