There have been many posts at The Moderate Voice which create a false equivalency between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, calling both extremists, or which erroneously frame the Sanders campaign as an attack on moderates. Fortunately moderates who have turned out to vote do not see it the same way. It is Bernie Sanders who is bringing independents into the Democratic Party while Hillary Clinton has a declining base of support from hard core Democrats over the age of 65 who back party over principles. Sanders’ margin of victory among moderates was almost identical as it was among liberals in the New Hampshire primary.
Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, had this to say about this type of misinterpretation of the primary battle: