If the polls are accurate, New Hampshire voters on Tuesday will rally behind Democratic and Republican candidates who are wildly different yet weirdly similar tribunes of populist rage.
Bernie Sanders, the Democratic socialist showing up Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump, the wealthy marketing genius who is pummeling the Republican field, unite in railing that the rich and powerful have rigged the U.S. economy against everyone else.
False prophets both, Sanders and Trump are masters at amplifying long-building national frustrations and anger over, first and foremost, declining standards of living. They are now speaking the exact same language.
Here is Sanders in last week’s Democratic debate:
“Millions of Americans are giving up on the political process. And they’re giving up on the political process because they understand the economy is rigged.
“They are working longer hours for low wages. They’re worried about the future of their kids, and yet almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent . .
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