Wednesday, March 2, 2016

How The DNC Shielded Clinton From the Same Fate As Jeb Bush


By Michael Sainato, March 01, 2016 Observer

Jeb Bush was at one point predicted to be a shoo-in for the Republican presidential nomination. His name recognition and the vast amounts of funding behind his campaign should have made him a viable contender to win. Instead, Mr. Bush couldn’t gain steam, and his desperate attempts to appear relevant provided the media with an almost comical outlet of coverage in the primaries. The Establishment-backed Republican never stood a chance.

But Mr. Bush’s failure is not just symptomatic of Donald Trump’s rise—rather, it is indicative of a larger backlash fermenting against Establishment politics. Over the past decade this sentiment has spread, and similar anti-Establishment movements have swept across the Democratic Party as well—stemming first from the Occupy movement in reaction to the growing power special of interests under the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
 

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1 comment:

  1. No one I knew wanted Jeb Bush before he entered the race, he would not have won no matter what Trump or anyone else did to him.

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