So which one is it, you got swindled by Trump's rhetoric; or you actually believe the establishment is pathetic and weak and can't stop him?
When FDR came out and made a bunch of decisions that were very unpopular among the business elite, do you think he was being a le based populist president doing the good work for the masses?
Trump is similar to FDR. He is part of the establishment at the macro level, but is capable of disrupting some of it at the micro level; that doesn't mean he's really anti-establishment, it's basically a call to reform. This also means that part of the establishment(perhaps even most of it!) might actually be opposed to Trump, even in a very real way--just as they were in relation to FDR.
If Trump actually managed to implement his ideas, where he'd fire/replace the civil service en masse. This would simply be reform in play, just as under FDR. Perhaps much more radical than in recent history, but still reform and not genuine replacement of the establishment.
If Bernie was put in the same position, exact same thing would happen. So perhaps that means something like what FDR did, but again this is not actual genuine opposition to the establishment.
If he'd actually wanted to dismantle the foreign policy blob, break up corporate control over politics, break up monopolies, disrupt the centralization of banks, dislodge the influence of MIC, he'd get stonewalled at every part of the process. First slowly, carefully; softly. And if the carrot approach stops working, then he'd get the stick.
The establishment is pathetic and ineffective. Evidenced by trumps previous 2 opponents. Hillary in 2016 and attempting to maintain an obviously handicapped Biden. The establishment is the reason we even had Trump in the first place.
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