Thread by @laughingliberal

Here's where almost everyone on @CNN and @MSNBC has the Trump/Sanders dynamic dead wrong. Trump has, it's true, not 'gone after' Bernie. From that you take that he believes he will easily beat Bernie. Wrong takeaway. Trump read the mood of the electorate with scary perception...

@CNN @MSNBC ...He saw the anger, the despair, the loneliness out there with no where to turn. Both parties abandoned poor and working class people, NOT the white working class you all talked about endlessly but the whole working class has been suffering without a raise for 45 years as...

@CNN @MSNBC ...Bernie Sanders points out all the time. The whole working class has faced skyrocketing medical costs for a couple of decades and, yes, even with your beloved ACA. I don't need to enumerate all the ways our lives have deteriorated or the hopeless challenge our children...

@CNN @MSNBC (and, in my case grandchildren and great grandchildren) are facing. If you'd like more information about this, I'll refer to Bernie's stump speech. We were decimated by the 2008 crash. Many of us lost everything and so are now unable to help the kids who haven't been able to...

@CNN @MSNBC ...get their lives started due, either to a lack of needed education or the burden of crushing debt. Diseases of despair, as they're called now are skyrocketing. A president we voted for believing the hope and change he promised bailed out the banks and let the foreclosure...

@CNN @MSNBC ...fraud machine mow us down. There's a book's worth of material there so...moving on. Trump read the mmood of the electorate perfectly as any good salesman or con men can. He spoke to people's pain and he promised to fight for them. Not sure how many of you noticed how much...

@CNN @MSNBC ...of Bernie Sanders agenda he adopted (with no intention of delivering in it but desperate people and all that). I'm guessing if you noticed it your take was,"BERNIE'S JUST LIKE TRUMP." when the truth was Trump co-opted Bernie's message cause if there was ever a time it took...

@CNN @MSNBC ...a populist to reach the people, that was it. With Sanders' campaign done in, he was free to take a lot of his talking points, saving Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid; Healthcare (we're gonna cover everyone. It'll be great) and the very most important issue,opposing TPP...

@CNN @MSNBC ...Note: #TPP was, likely, the biggest single issue that cost Clinton the election. Now, for the true motive Trump is being nice, sometimes almost affectionate towards Bernie. Again, it's NOT because he thinks he'll be easy to beat. It's because Trump is the counterfeit Bernie...

@CNN @MSNBC ...for starters but (and this is something the Democrats in the race need to heed, too) the bottom line is people like Bernie Sanders. Almost everyone likes Bernie Sanders. Outside some really bitter PUMAs and other assorted partisans, he's very well liked. Even people who don't

@CNN @MSNBC ...agree with him on policies or plan to vote for him. He has the highest approval rating of almost any politician in the country. He also scores at or near the top on the question of trustworthiness. He's seen as, and is, honest. And he cares. The only people who don't see the..

@CNN @MSNBC ...care are worried about some superficial self interest or other. Trump got the votes of 12% of the Bernie's voters, very likely those who were terrified of #TPP. Had Obama lost his mind belligerently insisting he would shove it through in the lame duck session? Anyway, ...

@CNN @MSNBC ...this should be obvious but that 12% of Bernie's voters who voted Trump did not want Trump. They just didn't want #TPP shoved down their throats (and, frankly, I can't say I'm sorry #TPP didn't pass but I didn't vote for Trump, regardless). Trump knows he's likely to lose...

@CNN @MSNBC ...those voters if Bernie's the opposition and he'll lose a whole bunch of other people who like Bernie. It's always a risk to attack another politician but it's suicide to attack one everyone likes and trusts. Trump's a real asshole with a cruel streak but he's not stupid...

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@CNN @MSNBC ...He'll play around with the red baiting but I don't think you're going to see a full scale attack from him duing the primary. How he decides to play if Bernie's his opponent, I can't say but I know this is why he's holding his fire, for now.