In the 2016 race, June belonged to two outsiders who could not be more dissimilar.Like I said, Rand Paul has made a huge strategic blunder by embracing Mitch McConnell and moving away from his father's principled anti-establishment positions. A large portion of the public doesn't want to hear the same old establishment talk. They want independent voices, who won't be intimidated by the establishment. Rand doesn't appear to have the personality to stand belly to belly against those who would attempt to shout down any principled views he might dare to whisper.
Bernie Sanders is a socialist senator from VermoDnt and Donald Trump a celebrity capitalist and legendary entrepreneur and builder.
What do they have in common? Both have tapped into what the bases of their respective parties believe is wrong with America.
Bernie is the Willie Nelson of national politics, a leftist voice of a working class whose jobs and factories have been exported and whose wages have stagnated as banksters and the Davos-Doha crowd amass mammoth fortunes by playing games of three-dimensional Monopoly.
The 73-year-old Sanders may have no chance of beating Hillary. But the size of his crowds testifies that he speaks for millions.
Trump's success comes from the issues he has seized upon — illegal immigration and trade deals that deindustrialized America — and brazen defiance of Republican elites and a media establishment.
By now the whole world has heard Trump's declaration:
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. ... They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems to us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
Politically incorrect? You betcha.
-RW
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