Sanders may cause real damage to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Nation of consultants and retail workers…. One in three Sanders supporters said last month that they would refuse to vote for Clinton if she’s the Democratic nominee. … I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street.  I opposed that strenuously.”. Imagine serving multiple bosses before stabbing them all in the back. The theme of betrayal was prominent in the 1960s. In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy led a campaign against New Deal policies by charging communist betrayal in the highest ranks of government. We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. Donald Trump points to a supporter as he leaves a campaign event in Rome, New York, April 12, 2016. Bill Clinton has acknowledged that the 1994 crime bill “went too far.” Hillary Clinton said during the last debate, “I am sorry for the consequences that were unintended and had a very unfortunate impact on people’s lives.”, Bill Clinton was the first Democrat to get elected after the party lost three consecutive presidential campaigns — Jimmy Carter in 1980, Walter Mondale in 1984, Michael Dukakis in 1988. Senator Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign claimed that the Republican Party had been betrayed by the “Eastern Establishment.” The establishment Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was never a hero to conservatives. Democratic governance requires an intelligent populace. In the 1950s, that was the New Deal consensus. Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Buffalo, New York, April 18, 2016. Many Sanders supporters regard Clintonism as a betrayal of Democratic values. Bush and Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, he claimed that establishment figures were betraying President Ronald Reagan’s legacy. The real answers involve work, and that is something Americans have been taught to avoid. one factor in the mass incarceration of African-Americans. The population is too paranoid and selfish and uneducated to sustain an actual viable democracy. Trump won’t do anything either. Betrayal is an enduring issue in American politics. One of the Most Famous Traitors (Judas Iscariot) As per every one of the four authoritative gospels, … Conservatives have long nurtured a keen sense of betrayal. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush tried it — and look where it got them. But they were enraged by the Vietnam War and broke with the party establishment’s commitment to anti-communist containment that dated back to President Harry S. Truman and the onset of the Cold War. That’s because the Constitution mandates check and balances and a separation of powers. Every elected president has to compromise in order to get things done — even with members of his own party. Trump’s support among Republicans is broader than ideological conservatives. That’s exactly what Iwasato, who ruled Taiwan from 1988 to 2000, did— he served the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang, and Taiwan…and ended up betraying all three! REUTERS/Carlo Allegri. @brotherkenny4 I totally agree “The real answers involve work, …” Unfortunately ideologists are truly convinced that their simplistic ideology (of whatever sort) has very easy answers to every problem, and the current primary system and gerrymandered congressional districts are vulnerable to hijacking by ideologists. “It might as well be called `Let’s Make a Deal.’”. Republican leaders got elected with their support, and they then ignored them on issues like trade, immigration, entitlement spending and isolationism. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri. It’s a different era, and many Democrats want to renounce the compromises of the Clinton era as a betrayal of the party’s true values. In the spirit of betrayal, we’re looking at a few more shocking betrayals from history in celebration of the Ides: starting, of course, … Restoring green to a city’s concrete hardscape, http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/. He even slammed the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s leading gay-rights organization, for supporting Clinton because she is the establishment candidate. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. On the Democratic side, Sanders has expanded his campaign message from an attack on Wall Street to an attack on the Democratic Party. On the Republican side, the sense of betrayal started long before the Trump campaign. makes nothing. The Reagan consensus was brought down by the failures of the George W. Bush administration. Last year, he said, “I disagree with [former President Bill Clinton] strongly on NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement] and permanent trade relations with China. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Purists don’t like deals. March 15th, better known as the Ides of March, marked the first half of the first month of the year in the Roman Calendar. He appeals to a lot of white working-class voters, who feel intensely alienated from the GOP. They call people who make them sell-outs. It emerged with the Tea Party movement in 2010, which claimed that Republicans in Washington were failing to do what Republicans elected them to do — namely, stop Obama, particularly his Obamacare policies. Should a small Texas court set immigration law for the nation? The Tea Party accused GOP party leaders like former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and former House Speaker John Boehner of selling out the conservative cause. The people who are betrayed are fools who seek a leader to make the decisions that they avoid. Senator Bernie Sanders takes part in a round table discussion in the Bronx, New York, April 18, 2016. They cite Wall Street, trade deals, the Defense of Marriage Act, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” welfare reform, Clinton’s balanced-budget deal with then House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the 1994 crime bill, one factor in the mass incarceration of African-Americans. He is just another liar. In the 1990s, as Pat Buchanan ran for the Republican presidential nomination against President George H.W. Our story begins in 1946. Library of Congress/Marion S. Trikosko. “We’re taking on not only Wall Street and the economic establishment,” he said in January. America is doomed. “We’re taking on the political establishment.” He accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of being part of the establishment because of her support from Planned Parenthood. He was a “New Democrat” and an advocate of “the third way.”. The left had no problem with the Democratic establishment’s commitment to New Deal social-welfare liberalism or civil rights. Many Sanders supporters regard Clintonism as a betrayal of Democratic values. In 44 BC, it also marked one of history’s most notorious betrayals and brutal political assassinations: that of Julius Caesar by his friend, Brutus. Senator Barry M. Goldwater September 25, 1962. It transformed both political parties. Trump amplifies their complaints. We are now beginning to see the same anger in the Bernie Sanders campaign. Meet the godfather of political betrayal — Iwasato Masao. The Donald Trump campaign has always been angry. He, like Bill Clinton afterward, was seen as too accommodating to the prevailing consensus. Those whose voices speak reason are hated by the believers in mystical magical worlds. That’s how American government works. The Trump campaign does not come out of the conservative movement, which favors Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. Even if he doesn’t win the nomination, Sanders seems intent on provoking showdowns at the Democratic convention over issues (trade, Wall Street) and over rules (the power of super-delegates). A powerful sense of betrayal is driving the 2016 campaign. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/. With a string of losses like that, a party is likely to conclude, “We can’t go on like this.”  Clinton led the Democrats back to power by reaching an accommodation with the still dominant Reagan consensus.

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