Truthdig: Both parties to blame for Trump's proximity to the White House.

[madfloridian]

Actually this is a thoughtful article.

Both Parties Are to Blame for Donald Trump’s Proximity to the White House

Clad in his armor of hate, Trump is handily winning state after state in the Republican primary election, prompting many of us to wonder how he can possibly be so popular. A country where a black man won the popular vote two elections in a row now has enough voters either embracing Trump’s racism or so willing to look past it that he is likely to snag the Republican Party’s nomination. It seems unreal.

The article continues by saying that in some ways "his popularity is a predictable end result of the politics of resentment that the Republican Party has stoked for years in order to win votes."

The GOP establishment has built up ideas about cutting government spending to individuals while boosting businesses through claims (proved false time and again) that jobs and other benefits trickle down to ordinary Americans. It has nurtured a large segment of the American population in this way, relying on social hot-button issues such as abortion to override personal economic hardship and to direct votes toward the party. But Republicans didn’t count on a Trump candidacy offering voters the demagoguery minus spending cuts. This is on them.

The writer then turns to the Democrats' role.

A choice between Sanders and Trump offers white voters the chance to choose inclusiveness over demagoguery in its most reductive terms. Indeed, progressive whites, in conjunction with voters of color (who tend to be progressive), already outnumber white swing voters. So it should not surprise us that in a Sanders-Trump matchup, Sanders would probably win. In fact, the latest CNN poll finds that “Sanders—who enjoys the most positive favorable rating of any presidential candidate in the field, according to the poll—tops all three Republicans (Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio] by wide margins.”

Yet the Democratic Party establishment has chosen to tilt toward Clinton, promising her the lion’s share of superdelegates. If Clinton wins the nomination based on her superdelegate count and then goes on to lose the White House to Trump or any of the other Republican candidates, then that’s on the Democratic Party.

Ultimately, the blame for the state of American electoral politics can be laid at the feet of both major parties.

[TDale313]

1. Really good read.

Of course we know if they succeed in pushing Hillary on us and she loses (which is likely) we'll be hearing how President Trump is all the fault of the looney lefties.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

2. Trump isn't close to the White House, he's close to the Republican nomination.

While he might well have beaten Sanders, Sanders isn't going to be nominated, and Clinton - or any other remotely credible candidate - will probably wipe the floor with Trump.

[Darb]

3. Ooooooh, You're in trooouuuble.

The Bernies are gonna swarm on you.

[Svafa]

4. He's a hell of a lot closer to the WH than anyone (sane) wants him to be!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

14. Sort of.

Every four years, a Republican gets at least as close to the White House as Trump currently is.

Given that it was going to happen, I'd far rather it were Trump than Cruz or Rubio.

[madfloridian]

5. Well...

The DNC considers Bernie and us non-Democrats now. Will they consider us Democrats in November when they need our votes and money?

I'm having a hard time this primary at the insults being hurled our way from our own party.

Go ahead, ask for links....I've got them.

[MariaThinks]

6. bull crap. The Democrats have 0 responsibility.

[madfloridian]

7. Not bullcrap.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511406913

[lame54]

13. the everyday democrat hates superdelegates

[One_Life_To_Give]

8. Mostly True

However it left out the idea that some are rilled up over the establishment in both parties not fixing the economy. Trump does best with the low education voters that have born the brunt of the change from Industrial Manufacturing to a Service Economy. They are also the ones who have to compete for jobs against, not H1B's, but the poorly educated immigrants which are primarily from Latin America.

Their parents and/or grandparents raised families on a single paycheck. Working their entire adult lives at places like Packard, Boeing, US Steal. What do they have to look forward to today? Who has painted a vision of an economy with a Job they can be proud of?

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. Small Government is code for eliminating programs for the poor particularly minorities. In other

words it's a racist and classist term.

[TeamPooka]

10. GOP is choosing Trump because of racism and hate, not Hillary Clinton. Please. nt

[madfloridian]

11. Agree about Trump. I did not say that about Hillary.

However I do think her campaign has made racism an issue toward Bernie when it was never really one at all.

I do believe Bernie has a better chance of beating Trump than Hillary.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1397661

[TeamPooka]

12. talking about the linked article writer's premise.