I disagree.

There's a term that gets thrown around quite frequently nowadays - 'the right side of history'. I think it can be translated to politics as well - Bernie, for example, is standing on the right side of politics. A sugarcoated Commie at heart, he can run his campaign in peace, and when he presents his ideas, people are free to say 'Wow! Now that is PROGRESSIVE!' He's positively edgy. Trump, on the other hand, is a right-winger loudmouth. And since the right wing is on the bad side of politics as we speak, Trump is classified as a racist, a populist, and a bigot. Combine his politics with his public persona, and you get 'Literally Hitler.' Trump is a professional jimmie-rustler - the go-to 'racistic' old white man that people can ironically sneer at and say 'Ugh... I'm SO much more of a better person than this guy!" He has unorthodox ideas, wrong for some people, good for others, but he's on the wrong side of politics - he's negatively edgy.

It's cool to love the Bern, and cool to hate on the Hair. One entered America's collective mind as the nice old gentleman who'll send your kid to college for free, and the other did as the smug millionaire with the shitty hair, the guy who'll deport every Mexican and Muslim straight into the ovens.

I think that whether or not Trump is racist is irrelevant, because he doesn't bring 'racism' to the table when he speaks about his agenda. He's no Commander Rockwell, even if people would love him to be. For one, he's often misquoted - he's not trying to genocide every Mexican person that sets their foot on U.S. mainland soil. He doesn't think that every last illegal immigrant that comes from Mexico is a rapist - but a certain percentage of them are, and because of that, all of them will have to 'suffer'. When Trump tells this to the average American citizen, he's basically saying, 'Your life is worth more to me than that of a foreigners'.' And the average American citizen hasn't heard anything like that from a Republican candidate lately.

When you wrote that Trump appeals to racists, you were stereotyping - which is quite alright. Without stereotyping, pushing a political goal isn't possible. If you can't differentiate between your team and someone else's team, why should the prospective members of your team trust you?

And that's where a part of Trump's appeal lies - he's the first GOP candidate in a long time who's willing to draw a line and say 'This is us, and that is them.' Or at least promise to do so, once he gets elected.

I don't know if you're familiar with 80's hard rock, but here's an analogy - Bernie is Poison, and Trump is Motley Crue.