{"id":49135,"date":"2016-01-21T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=49135"},"modified":"2016-01-21T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:48:00","slug":"why-bernie-sanders-political-revolution-doesnt-have-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/01\/why-bernie-sanders-political-revolution-doesnt-have-a-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bernie Sanders\u2019 \u201cPolitical Revolution\u201d Doesn\u2019t Have a Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hillary Clinton and Sanders need to give plans for executive branch action, given gridlock in Congress. In response, on Twitter, some Sanders supporters said this was wrong: That Sanders\u2014with a long career in lawmaking<\/a>\u2014could win Republican support; that Sanders would use the bully pulpit to rally voters<\/a>; and that a Sanders win would necessarily bring the kind of wave<\/a> that would give him votes for his policies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But this is blind to reality. Compromise is a distant shore. The Democratic Party has moved to the left, and the Republican Party has made a sharp turn to the right, guided by two generations of conservative revolutionaries, from Newt Gingrich to the Tea Party tidal wave of 2010. If you watched the Republican and Democratic debates back to back, you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking they described two different countries. What\u2019s more, as demonstrated by the GOP presidential race\u2014as well as the leadership fracas in the House of Representatives\u2014many Republicans (57 percent, according to the Pew Research Center) reject compromise full stop. The world where Donald Trump and Ben Carson lead the GOP presidential race is not a world where Republican voters would support a Democratic president or assent to his policies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The presidency is polarizing<\/a>. When you step onto its field, you become a polarized figure. Indeed, the \u201cbully pulpit\u201d does more to tear people apart<\/a> than bring them together. For all of his legislative success, President<\/em> Sanders would be just as divisive as President Obama, who was just as divisive as President Bill Clinton. You can\u2019t avoid this; it is baked into the cake of ideological politics. Conservatives are just as sincere with their beliefs as liberals. And they\u2019ll reject a Sanders agenda in the same way that liberals would reject Sen. Ted\u2019s Cruz\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

READ FULL ARTICLE =>\u00a0Why Bernie Sanders\u2019 \u201cPolitical Revolution\u201d Doesn\u2019t Have a Chance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Hillary Clinton and Sanders need to give plans for executive branch action, given gridlock in Congress. In response, on Twitter, some Sanders supporters said this was wrong: That Sanders\u2014with a long career in lawmaking\u2014could win Republican support; that Sanders would use the bully pulpit to rally voters; and that a Sanders win would necessarily bring…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1774,1628,22,68],"tags":[1622,55,549,1877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49155,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49135\/revisions\/49155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}