Pat Buchanan is bullish on The Donald: compares Trump's campaign to that of Sanders
Failed presidential candidate and World Net Daily columnist Pat Buchannan became the latest pundit to compare Donald Trumps campaign to that of Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in an essay predicting the bombastic real estate moguls continued rise.
Buchanan likened Sanders popularity among parts of the Democratic base to Trumps popularity among Tea Party Republicans, arguing that the clearest message from the summer surge of Bernie Sanders and the remarkable rise of Donald Trump is that the American political class has failed the country, and should be fired:
Buchanan noted the great similarity between Trumps campaign and his own 1992 challenge to Republican incumbent George H.W. Bush. Buchanan, who ran on an extreme anti-illegal immigration platform and blasted multiculturalism during his presidential bid, argued that Trumps campaign was a mix of his 1992 campaigns xenophobic fearmongering and Bernie Sanders economic populism:
Hes exposing that and hes hitting two of the really strong populist issues. One of them, theres overlap with Bernie Sanders, and thats the trade issue, the export of American jobs and factories, and whats happening to the American middle class.
But the other one Trump is hitting, which is one of the hottest issues in the whole West, as well as the United States, is the massive invasion, if you will, of what people feel is the conquest of the West by massive third-world immigrations, coming from refugees, and border jumpers, and all the rest of them. Hes wired into both of these and theyre enormously popular issues.
(There is a video of a Meet the Press interview with Sanders under the title: Bernie Sanders: "My Campaign Is Not Like Donald Trumps"').
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/28/pat_buchanan_is_bullish_on_the_donald_right_wing_pundit_predicts_trump_will_go_the_distance/
There is almost no similarity between the policies proposed by Trump (to the extent he actually discusses specific policies rather than ranting about hatred of Others) and the political ideas presented by Sanders.