Opinion: A Bernie Sanders exchange on Fox highlights a big Trump vulnerability
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 16 at 10:12 AM Only hours after President Trump’s agitated Twitter thumbs announced a new immigration policy that appears to be imaginary — he tweeted that migrants will now be dumped into Democratic strongholds, even though there are zero indications this will happen — Bernie Sanders went on Fox News and popped the right-wing bubble from the inside.
Already, Trump is unshakably certain that he and Republicans can win by making 2020 all about immigration. But this premise is questioned even by some Republicans.The Post reports on a telling divide that has opened up between Trump and GOP messaging. The White House and Republican committees are all pushing talking points about how Trump’s tax cut has been great for all Americans and is fueling a booming economy.
But Republicans just lost the House in their biggest rout since Watergate over “this issue.” Don’t take my word for it. The communications director for the House GOP campaign operation says: “In swing districts in Texas, Florida and California, that debate hurt us.” Sanders was pressed on whether he’d personally volunteer the higher tax burden he’s proposing on top earners. This is a dopey conservative attack, and the answer is easy: The wealthy as a class must pay higher rates as an institutional matter, and by proposing this change, Sanders is of course including himself in the ranks of those who would pay more. There will be time to get this answer right.
But Trump’s resistance will give Democrats a strong argument. Yes, Trump won in 2016 despite not releasing them. But now it’s different: Trump has since signed a tax bill that unmasked his 2016 economic populism as fraudulent, one that’s widely understood as a giveaway to the wealthy and corporations, and did nothing for Republicans in 2018. We still don’t know how much Trump personally profited.
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