 So a couple of weeks ago on the program we talked about an article that was published by the Washington Post and The author was Dana Milbank and he posits that Bernie Sanders is the Trump of the left and ever since this article was published We've seen cable news try to reinforce this narrative. We've seen politicians and Establishment politicians more specifically try to reinforce this narrative and now right on cue Presidential candidate Pete Buddha judge who attended what to do about Bernie meeting secretly with Democratic Party leadership such as Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer near attendant even he is now Reinforcing this narrative as well, but rather than saying that Bernie Sanders himself is Like Donald Trump is the Trump of the left. He's saying that Bernie Sanders supporters are Similar to Donald Trump supporters with respect to their anti establishment Predisposition so this is what he had to say specifically and when we come back I'm gonna tell you why I take issue with his framing of people who are anti establishment Seeing that the numbers are fine like unemployment slow like all that like set GPs growing And yet a lot of neighborhoods and families are living like like this recovery never even happened. They're stuck It just kind of turns you against the system in general and then you're more likely to want to vote Which could lead you somebody like Bernie The reason why I take issue with what he said there and really his framing more specifically is because there's this underlying implication that being anti establishment is Inherently bad There's that negative connotation associated with being anti establishment and he says, you know people who are anti establishment because let them down This is why we're in the situation Because people are anti establishment because they opt for Bernie because they opt for Trump. This is why we're in the situation So on one hand, there's the correct assumption that the establishment is Pissing off a lot of people but on the other hand, there's this also this the secondary implication that well This is why we're in this bad situation this objectively bad situation It's because there's this anti establishment fervor. So you kind of tacitly give the establishment a pass rather than explaining how bad it's been and why people are anti establishment, but just to draw this equivalence between Trump and Sanders supporters even to suggest that they're on opposite sides of two extremes is harmful because what Trump supporters have is a fundamental misunderstanding as to why the system is not working Whereas Bernie supporters, we're not Anti-establishment because we believe that the political establishment is inherently bad We're anti establishment because we have a nuanced opinion because the establishment is not working for normal Americans And the reason why we're anti establishment is because we view the establishment as impediments to justice equality environmental justice So because the establishment is no longer working because it is now static We are saying the establishment needs to do better. Whereas Donald Trump supporters. They don't get that There's no complexity with their political ideology Trump just says look it's immigrants It's Muslims and they accept what he says whereas with us There's no cult of personality Driving our support for Bernie Sanders So that's why they even put Bernie supporters and Trump supporters in the same category Even if it's correct that they're both anti establishment what you're doing is a disservice You are glossing over really important details that differentiates Trump supporters from Bernie supporters and really if you want to compare anyone to Donald Trump any politician to Donald Trump Ideologically speaking Pete Buddha judge is closer ideologically to Donald Trump because Donald Trump is on the far right Pete Buddha judge is more of a centrist and Bernie Sanders is a center left politician So if anyone should be compared to Donald Trump, it should be the centrists The Pete Buddha judges the better or works of the world because they're the ones who are closer to Donald Trump But yet people like near attend and promote this idea that horseshoe theory is a thing where you have two Equally opposite far right and far left sides that move so far to the left and the far right move so far to the right that they almost Converge in a way, but that's not true What I think is a more accurate Representation of what's happening is fish hook theory, but understand what's happening here and even if Pete Buddha judge is able to I think Easily explain away this comparison here what they've been trying to do when I say they meaning cable news pundits and Establishment politicians. They're trying to cultivate a narrative be very aware of the fact that they have been Deliberately trying to prime you to believe that Bernie Sanders is like Donald Trump So can I just play who he's starting to sound a lot like right? I pay what I owe by the way Donald Trump says that and is completely unashamed. I pay what I owe and why would I pay a dollar more? Okay? That's right Americans should hear here Here are Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump talking about their books I don't apologize for writing a book that was number 300 New York Times that selling translating the five or six languages But I wrote the art of the deal which is in all fairness. I think the number one selling business book of all time It is funny well look why these guys so like So they're trying to cultivate this narrative and that's on purpose It's no coincidence that all of a sudden everyone in the mainstream media everyone in the political elite class Is trying to compare Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders? It's because they want people to believe even if it is subtle that well, you know We have this instability because of Donald Trump So if you elect the left equivalent of Trump then obviously that's going to make for more political instability And it's unacceptable and that's specifically why People have been calling Pete Buddha judge out here So for example, Ro Khanna says come on Pete Buddha judge It is intellectually dishonest to compare Bernie to Trump Bernie is forgiving people health care education Childcare and more pay he wants to blow up Credentialed elitism those who reject tuition-free college for all and of course Pete Buddha judge does reject that Nina Turner says Bernie Sanders supporters are not the same as Trump fans Senator Bernie Sanders supporters are democratic and independent voters Many of whom are people of color and she goes on to cite articles that explain just how diverse and Dynamic Bernie Sanders base is so I think that those tweets do a phenomenal job explaining why we are pushing back So forcefully against this narrative because what Pete Buddha judge is doing by comparing Bernie supporters to Trump supporters is He is adding to this media narrative that they're all collectively trying to cultivate That Bernie is the Trump of the left It started with Dana Milbank and they all started parroting the same thing and now here Pete Buddha judges doing the same thing now He's trying to take shots at Bernie Sanders Because when you are behind if you can attack and target the frontrunner It makes you more viable it boosts your name recognition now Pete Buddha judge put put it Pete Buddha judge he doesn't have to do that because the media loves him They are eating out of the palms of his hands But he chose to do this and it's because again He was part of that small coalition of elite Democratic Party insiders Who got together had dinner and discussed what to do about Bernie now? He did release a response and this is what he had to say my point is that people have been motivated to want to blow up the Establishment and Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump represent radically different ways of doing that But I think part of how each of them was able to get some appeal was by speaking to the frustration that so many Americans have With anything perceived as the establishment anything seen as being committed to the political and economic Systems that have been prevailing really for my entire life. So even though they led different voters in very different directions I do think it is meaningful that anti establishment candidates the more dramatically anti establishment the better Be it from the left or the right have been able to get so much support in recent years two things that I noticed here First of all, he's kind of walking back his comments But second of all the reason why he's talking about the establishment and the perceived skepticism of any one or anything any entity associated with the establishment is because it's led people down Now why would he touch on this? Why would he even bring this up? Well, it's because it's very clear that he is an establishment candidate News media loves him the Democratic Party leadership clearly loves him since they met with him to talk about what to do about Bernie Sanders So he is part of the establishment So I think that he's probably personally angered at the fact that people are skeptical of anyone who's perceived to be Anywhere near the establishment and since he is part of the establishment and certainly perceived to be that way I think correctly so and this is just speculation I can't get inside his head, but because he's perceived to be establishment now He wants to try to speak to the frustration and kind of communicate to voters. Hey look I get it I understand the establishment isn't working now The question is is this a strategy that can help boost Pete Buddha judges anti establishment street cred Possibly, I mean, I think that it's important just generally speaking that you acknowledge that there is widespread frustration with the establishment But the problem is he will have this perception issue going forward Since he already met with Democratic Party leadership and essentially Conspired to figure out what to do about Bernie Sanders and that's going to be a problem So maybe it's the case that he wasn't intending to take shots at Bernie Sanders And he just worded what he was saying in a really poor way But the problem is once you start drawing comparisons between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump and their supporters You start making it seem as if you're jumping on the bandwagon on a particular narrative that media is currently trying to shove down our throat that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are Similar in a multitude of ways and the problem is if you do that then people who you may need in the event You become the Democratic Party's nominee will feel disenchanted with you because they think that you're just like Donald Trump supporters So all that I'm saying here is if you want to be perceived as being anti establishment at least To what a larger degree than he has been then actually be anti establishment take more populist positions And stop conspiring behind closed doors against Bernie Sanders period Subscribe if you like this video fucks Mike's tremendous and he's doing a really really good job Many people are telling me about how wonderful the humanist report is Bigly