How were the versions of populism that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders used in the 2016 presidential election to appeal to voters similar to and different from each other?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The ideal answer should include:
- Similarities: both insurgent candidates made populist appeals to alienated and angry voters; both candidates used their populist views to shake up the establishment of both major political parties; both candidates stated that the government and the privileged elites had betrayed the American people, leaving them to struggle economically
- Differences:
* Trump: his version of political populism was more style or marketing strategy than a set of principles; he appealed to his voting base by also promising to advance the interests of native-born Americans over immigrants, which resulted in racial hatred, economic nationalism, and xenophobia; he celebrated an American national identity defined in racial, ethnic, and religious terms and proposed shielding the nation's domestic industry from unfair foreign competition
* Sanders: used economic populism to focus more on the nation's growing inequality in which plutocracy endangered the futures of democracy and the middle class; stressed that climate change would require unprecedented federal planning and spending; favored breaking up big banks and restoring campaign financial limits; believed that universal health care and free college tuition at public institutions were a societal right; his views were more aligned to an ambitious, social democratic, European-style vision than what other mainstream candidates proposed in their platforms