Chuck Rocha: Trump Is Popular Because He Sounds Like a Democrat Back in 1989

CALLER: “My question is, Donald Trump is a very scary guy. What makes him so popular?”
COATES: “Chuck, you want to take that one?”
ROCHA: “This is my favorite question. We‘ve talked about it on this program before. I joined the Democratic Party in 1989 because I wanted to fight NAFTA. I wanted to drain the swamps. I wanted to make sure that my tax dollars weren‘t going to foreign wars or wasted. I give you that one, Bryan. And that sounds like Donald Trump today. That‘s why we lose to him, is we‘ve let him steal our verbiage. We have quit talking about working Americans, keeping America safe, doing the things that we did when I joined this party. And that‘s the reason — he is scary, but he‘s not scary to enough people to lose elections because he sounds like the Democrats and why I joined this party.”
COATES: “Bryan, what do you think?”
LANZA: “Listen, I think Trump is not scary when you think about what‘s scary without Trump in Washington, D.C.: an out of control bureaucracy that‘s invading our lives every day more and more, and people want to change from that. And I think that‘s why — you know, I‘m sorry you feel scared, but I think more and more people feel comfortable with what‘s going on.”
ROCHA: “You should be sitting here. I‘m scared. [inaudible]”
LANZA: “I’m not scared. I’m a Latino and I’m not scared.”
COATES: “Okay. We’re never scared, apparently, in this studio right now.”
LANZA: “There’s men in the studio.”