Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders
By Anis Shivani, Salon

(May 6, 2016 03:07 pm EDT) — Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem’s populism?

This week, on the night of the Indiana primary, I read one of the most loathsome political screeds it has been my misfortune to encounter.

It was an alarm bell raised by Andrew Sullivan, arguably the greatest hypocrite of the Bush era, on par with his partner in many crimes Christopher Hitchens (remember “Islamofascism?”). Sullivan proclaims that the election of Trump would be an “extinction-level” event. Well, perhaps it will be.

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