This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, January 23rd, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

A great deal of the discernible platform of now President Donald Trump should sound familiar because much of it's also endorsed

by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. From entitlements to trade immigration, there are striking similarities.

John Samples, Vice President at the Cato Institute, comments on two populist politicians.

Coming up on a year and a half ago, Judd Legum, he's the editor-in-chief at Think Progress wrote a piece called the surprisingly strong progressive case for Donald Trump and then laid out a bunch of his policy positions, ones that he has been fairly consistent on.

And to be quite honest, they do sound a lot like the platform offered by

Bernie Sanders and to a lesser extent Hillary Clinton.

Well, yeah, this was discussed particularly as Bernie sort of peaked in the spring against Hillary.

And it's certainly true that there's some things that seem to be

uh... very similar

but i suspect there were very few people who were going to vote for

Donald Trump or were going to vote for Bernie Sanders ended up voting for Donald Trump.

Partisanship's part of that issue.

Partisanship seems to have an in the world we live in today in independent effects.

I mean, so you took two people that had the exact same views,

but one thought of themselves as a Democrat and the other Republican,

they would actually differ in their voting behavior and I think because of this sort of perplexing effects of partisanship.

And Trump's part of that, you know, I mean you look at things like that are actually kind of non-negotiable differences between candidates.

Trump has said, for example, that yes, God should be in at the center of our politics.

Now, we may wonder whether he actually believes that,

but that's true of a lot of politicians.

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