Remember month's ago when it was feared that Hillary Clinton would not be tested in the Democratic nomination process? Now the worry is that the party cannot be brought back together.
In Kentucky, Clinton took the cities and Sanders took the rural areas, especially the coal country. I don't know why the coal country favored Sanders over Clinton as Sanders is as much against coal as Clinton, maybe even more so.
Hillary's two opponents - Trump and Sanders - surprisingly share a number of viewpoints such as:*
Both being against foreign trade such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal;**
Both opposed the Iraq War;
Both flip-flopped on gun control;
Both are against big money in politics (though Trump's claims of self -funding are false);
Both want to get rid of Obamacare (ACA) and replace it with a single-payer plan;
Both want to increase taxes on some or all of the wealthy (Trump notes " carried interest" of Hedge funds);
Both support maintaining or expanding the current levels of Social Security benefits;
Both are concerned about the effect of illegal immigration on American jobs.
Both Trump's and Sander's claim the system is rigged and their followers have gotten violent or said violent things.
But of course there are differences also. I'm not sure how serious Trump is to deporting all the illegals, but I think he is serious about building the wall on our Southern border. with Mexico. I say this because Trump likes to build things. Just think, "The Great Wall of Trump" to compete with The Great Wall of China.
* http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/what-bernie-sanders-and-donald-trump-have-in-common/422907/
** Though Hillary recently has come out against TPP, I suspect that she will flip back when (if?) she becomes president.
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