Red meat for the crazies

A review of "Sanders Supporters for Trump: Why Bernie Sanders Supporters Should Vote for Donald Trump for President" 

This is a very short pitch in favor of voting Donald Trump by a disgruntled supporter of Bernie Sanders. Mike Davis argues that Trump is better on foreign policy and the economy than Hillary Clinton, but avoids discussing Trump's opposition to immigration (the main plank of his campaign). Davis claims that Trump's more extreme proposals, such as banning all Muslims from entering the United States, aren't to be taken seriously. It's just “red meat for the crazies”. He doesn't say whether the wall against Mexico is just red meat. In fact, he doesn't mention it at all!

According to the author, Trump is really a Democrat who runs as a Republican for opportunist reasons. If millions of Democrats vote for him, the Democratic Party will be forced to change its politics in order to win these voters back. This won't happen if everyone votes for Hillary, whose “leftist” turn is a hoax forced upon her by the success of the Sanders campaign. Clinton is a “corporate Republican masquerading as a corporate Democrat”. Davis argues that the Libertarian and Green candidates are spoilers which will split the Trump vote, thereby handing Hillary Clinton the victory. (This makes little sense. Logically, Jill Stein will split the *Democratic* vote, while Gary Johnson will split the Republican ditto.)

I don't think this short Kindle article makes a convincing case. In all fairness, it was written before The Donald picked a more established conservative as his “veep”, thereby (perhaps) blunting his populist edges. However, my main problem with Mike is that he never explains to homeless Sandersistas why they should support an anti-immigration candidate, which seems to be the most obvious dividing line between the two camps. Therefore, I will only give this tract two stars.