Even a couple of my ('ashamed' to say it 🤦‍♂️) openly-Marxist friends said that they really liked Tucker, and that he made a lot of sense. For them, it was a conscious breath of fresh air from their snide, cynical, sweaty little echo chambers. ---> Trump-as-a-fake-Bernie Fever Dream hypothesis below.  Tangentially related, but I see it coming more 'true' (or at least, true...ish) every day. ---> ...I wouldn't underestimate the Pro-Labor "Bernie" camp's potential to support Trump. A lot of the more 'thinking' Bernie supporters very much realize that the Media is the Oligarchy's lynchpin, and will skew and misrepresent 'outsider threats' to the Uniparty. Despite the labels, a lot of Bernie and Trump's Nationalism is ironically the same. Reigning in the Power of Big Pharma & Insurance:  Similar. Trump's been EO'ing the hell out of Pharma and picking away at its power structure. Come January 1st, a lot of those PharmaSurance Middlemen are about to be Retired. I doubt Bernie/Bernie-people really disagree here, or with bringing Pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the USA. Exposing and Reigning in the Power of Big Media:  ...same. Trump says "Fake News," Bernie's cerebral about it, but may just be a 'bit' too polite to them even as they viciously project onto him. Trump, goading them intentionally for 4 straight years, has drawn the 'Gatekeepe  ffa  rs' out of the shadows for a much wider audience to see and take note of for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1rijFteQM8&ab_channel=LeftistCommentary I don't think "Old Bernie" really changed. Old Bernie marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and was arrested for it -- he knows damned well what actual 'racism' is. Trump goes pretty damn soft on him. Gives him hell for the 'Socialist' label, but otherwise holds him up to show just how much better he is than the DNC Swamp. Even says that "Bernie is further right and more sane than their Radical policies" (true!)  Trump's been using a lot of Bernie footage recently at the rallies. https://youtu.be/i3sl6RD030g And if you notice -- Bernie (or the mention of him, even as the butt end of a good 'socialist' joke) doesn't generate the Boos and Jeers that so many of the Criminal Politicians, Media, and Intelligence asshats get. Most of my friends and family liked Bernie, but most had a justified skepticism that he would ever be allowed to win in a system that has been subverted 'long ago.' To be honest, I suspect Post-2015 Bernie has been playing the part of "DNC Toady" so he doesn't get whacked. He's partly what kicked the Globalist Beehive in 2015/2016, when the American People (perhaps, with some amount of Hillary-fear Republican crossover support in the Democrat Primaries) nearly toppled the Clinton Machine from within with nothing but a Grassroots Movement and a hunchback 'socialist' leader.  No Q-Clearance Military Infodump (or World's-best LARP😎) helping navigate the sea of Corporate Headlines and smear campaigns. All things considered, one helluva good try, with what I think were the best intentions. TL;DR -- Trump has been busy implementing the framework of Bernie's [Nationalist] "Political Revolution," which starts with DRAINING THE SWAMP. After cleaning house and doing our damndest to institute World Peace, throw in a little bit of Debt Reset, and we may be pleasantly surprised how much tax money we have floating around for lofty "Socialist" infrastructure and investment programs here at home in the US of A.  Education, Healthcare, Energy, Technology, and of course Defense (A Big ole whoopin' stick hopefully never again needed until the Alien Invasion of 2383. King Ooblek of Planet G'narf sends his regards.)