If there's any equivalency, it's a false equivalency. This is a brief but excellent discussion of it from before the 2020 election: Please Stop Calling Bernie Sanders a Populist The socialist from Vermont is not a threat to American democracy. The president is. Jan. 23, 2020 By Jan-Werner Müller Mr. Müller is the author of “What Is Populism?” https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/opinion/bernie-sanders-trump-populism.html