Will Bernie Sanders be the Ron Paul of the Democratic party?
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uti2
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« on: September 20, 2016, 10:27:32 AM »

Ron Paul kicked off the proto-Tea Party movement which went into high-gear with his '08 campaign, but it took a few years before his watered down ideas could be merged into the republican mainstream. Back then, mainstream republicans regarded libertarian ideas as crackpot and insane. Will Bernie Sanders have a similar effect on the democrats?

And if so, does this likewise bode-well for mid-term turnouts for the Democrats in future cycles?

Already, you're starting to see Hillary adopt some of Bernie's positions, similar to how Romney went further to the right in 2012.
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« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2016, 10:32:55 PM »

Ron Paul kicked off the proto-Tea Party movement which went into high-gear with his '08 campaign, but it took a few years before his watered down ideas could be merged into the republican mainstream.
Sanders successors in his ideology are people like Keith Ellison, Al Franken, and Elizabeth Warren. Russ Feingold, Jon Tester, Steve Bullock, Ron Wyden, Jared Polis, and Bill De Blasio have similar ideologies with mixtures of libertarianism and whatever weird authoritarianism De Blasio has mixed in.
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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2016, 06:34:02 AM »

I wouldn't give much praise to Ron Paul, after all Bernie Sanders won 22 states in his primaries while Ron Paul didn't win a single state. Bernie had more of the milennials which will help in the future.
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2016, 09:15:52 AM »

No. Aside from them both being old and popular on Reddit there's no similarity.
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2016, 12:33:23 PM »

No. Aside from them both being old and popular on Reddit there's no similarity.

Ron Paul pushed the Republicans to the right, with the Tea Party. Never forget that the CSE, and the Kochs were originally backing Ron Paul a long ways back. Romney eventually absorbed some of these elements and turned more right in his next election cycle.

You're already starting to see Bernie's impact on the Democratic party being pushed left, and Hillary absorbing some of Bernie's platform elements.
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« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2016, 02:10:23 PM »

More like a leftist's Ronald Reagan. He even won the exact same percentage of votes that Reagan did against Ford.
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