Could the media ask for a better race than Sanders vs. Trump?
Really, if things play out this way, and at least right now there's a good chance of that happening, you have the perfect American race for president.
On one side, you have a brash, capitalist fatcat, a perfect symbol of capitalism -- everything that's greedy and self-serving and self-aggrandizing, someone ruthless who has no hesitation of spewing lies to market the product, and won't hesitate to trample on anyone in his way, even those who broadly agree with him, someone who (for clearly opportunistic reasons) identifies as faithful, and is faithful in the way that Mussolini was faithful to the Catholic Church.
On the other side, you have someone who seems to be almost as pure as the driven snow -- selfless, caring, altruistic, who is as honest as one can be in politics, and who will not boost himself at the expense of others, and has never lost sight of creating a more just society, and someone who is a secular Jew, who identifies with his faith primarily for the broad strokes of humanity that faith provides.
What an ideal race that would be! The big risk is that if Sanders lost, it would be a victory for everything wrong with our country, and could send us on a tailspin towards fascism, with the right-wing emboldened to actually target the left. But, if Sanders won ... imagine.
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