Personality Is All That Matters This Year | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Trump is about a cult of personality. That is what fascists run on. Cruz panders to social conservative concerns - he is the most prominent right to lifer in the field - even though that particular issue has outlived its usefullness. Rubio will be gone soon, but he tried to be the rational candidate. Kasich actually is the rational candidate - who can't win unless he gets the delegates of everyone else not named Trump. He is as pro-life as Cruz, but is less of a poser. All of them stick to the cut taxes orthodoxy of their party and fundraisers - and that is really the main issue that colors what happens in at least the first years of an administration.
Sanders and Clinton are both "difficult" personally and agree on most issues, but not about solutions. Clinton is a neo-liberal (arguably, Kasich is too), while Sanders is a democratic socialist. Issues ultimately transform to ideology - and the ideological differences are clear. Indeed, on earned delegates, the candidates are not so far away, save for the super delegates who will be under tremendous pressure to change their minds should Sanders lead on the earned side. As important is the fact that this campaign has been a teaching moment on ideology in current politics on the Democratic side - the GOP is a study in fascism.
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