Bernie Sanders is no Donald Trump | By secupp for CNNOpinion
SE Cupp is a CNN political commentator and the host of"SE Cupp Unfiltered." The views expressed in this commentary are solely hers. View more opinion articles on CNN.
As is fashionable during election season, candidates will be compared to others, both current and past, living and dead. It's a fun game, and can have some real usefulness as we try to learn from the failures and successes of previous eras and administrations. CNN Digital Expansion 2016 But other times, the desire to find quick commonality between two disparate figures can be too cute by half. And at worst, it's actually counterproductive and even offensive."Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Donald Trump of the left," reads the Washington Post headline above opinion writer Dana Milbank's column. This piqued my interest, as many WaPo headlines and Milbank posts do.But what followed wasn't just disappointing, it was ludicrous.
Sanders blames greed for failures in healthcare system 01:21Suffice it to say, it's an ill-advised exercise to equate complaints of harassment by women against men on a single campaign to credible accusations made by more than a dozen women of actual sexual assault against the actual candidate. These things are very different -- and women don't want all behaviors conflated into one blob-like superforce of patriarchy. But also, neither was met with a"yawn.
SE Cupp on Trump's lies: He is deeply insecure 02:20Trump is unique because his goal -- his only goal -- is to sow distrust and discord, not for any policy or political gains, but for his own self-gain and self-preservation. He himself motivates everything he does, and everything outside of him is expendable, from the party to our institutions to civility and our safety.
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