I think that it will be a good thing for Republican and MAGA voters to suffer the consequences of their vote. These idiots, and they are idiots, don't seem to understand that it was the very thing that what they are having destroyed is what created our extensive and inclusive middle class. Them suffering under an illiberal, anti-constitu…
I think that it will be a good thing for Republican and MAGA voters to suffer the consequences of their vote. These idiots, and they are idiots, don't seem to understand that it was the very thing that what they are having destroyed is what created our extensive and inclusive middle class. Them suffering under an illiberal, anti-constitutional Republican Party may not even change their minds or educate them, but them suffering yet another bad decision on their part is priceless.
However, I still demand that the Democratic Party replace the Clinton Democrats with FIGHTING progressives in the image of FDR.
The problem with progressives is that they agree with too many of Trump's bad ideas - e.g., protectionism, ending American world leadership, centralizing power. There is a reason why so many Bernie supporters ended up voting for Trump in 2016.
I don't see any of that. People voted for Trump in part because they said that they believed that he cared about them and did not think the same about Kamala because her messaging missed that mark. Progressives promote policies that benefit the working class, including taxing the rich to end their skim of worker wealth and so actually care, unlike the Clinton Democrats that have supported policies that eroded the middle class as shown by voting records.
How can you not see it? I'll lay out the obvious evidence.
Before Trump, America's Russia-friendly anti-NATO faction was entirely on the left. Even Obama, steeped in the blame-America Marxism of his college professors, started his presidency wanting to reduce American influence and not apply US pressure against Russia or Iran. He grew in office, and by year eight he had become less naive, but a lot of damage had been done by then.
Biden left most of Trump's tariffs in place. Even now, with Trump tariffs devastating the world economy, Democrats are going out of their way to defend tariffs as, essentially, good in moderation. And these are not even the most progressive Democrats. The real progressives are even more tariff-friendly.
I just argued online with a progressive a few days ago who attacked Reagan's attempt to devolve power to the states as racist. Progressives have long wanted to centralize power in DC in order so subordinate the states to their agenda.
With respect to policy, Trump is the anti-Reagan, more in line with the historic policy preferences of the left.
You don't know what you're talking about and your evidence is nonsense.
1. You sound like a right winger with that "blame-America Marxism of his college professors" statement that was used against Obama by the right. Obama was not nor is a progressive but an "establishment" Democrat, a Clinton Democrat, and so continued existing policies in most cases rather than changing them.
2. The Democrats are not "going out of their way to defend tariffs". Although tariffs have their place, such as helping end dumping,
3. Trump is the logical conclusion to what Reagan started, to make government small enough to drown in a bathtub such that it couldn't regulate the wealthy nor control conservative infringement on rights as is happening in every state that they control.
4. Progressives see government as a necessary control of the wealthy and so have sought to use it as such, unlike the GOP that sees fit to allow the wealthy to become oligarchs and take control of government because libertarians and conservatives see the rich as better people who should lead.
5. Trump is not progressive by any measure, he's an authoritarian who has committed treason in his willful violation of the constitution with the full support of the GOP. All should hang.
I think that it will be a good thing for Republican and MAGA voters to suffer the consequences of their vote. These idiots, and they are idiots, don't seem to understand that it was the very thing that what they are having destroyed is what created our extensive and inclusive middle class. Them suffering under an illiberal, anti-constitutional Republican Party may not even change their minds or educate them, but them suffering yet another bad decision on their part is priceless.
However, I still demand that the Democratic Party replace the Clinton Democrats with FIGHTING progressives in the image of FDR.
The problem with progressives is that they agree with too many of Trump's bad ideas - e.g., protectionism, ending American world leadership, centralizing power. There is a reason why so many Bernie supporters ended up voting for Trump in 2016.
I don't see any of that. People voted for Trump in part because they said that they believed that he cared about them and did not think the same about Kamala because her messaging missed that mark. Progressives promote policies that benefit the working class, including taxing the rich to end their skim of worker wealth and so actually care, unlike the Clinton Democrats that have supported policies that eroded the middle class as shown by voting records.
How can you not see it? I'll lay out the obvious evidence.
Before Trump, America's Russia-friendly anti-NATO faction was entirely on the left. Even Obama, steeped in the blame-America Marxism of his college professors, started his presidency wanting to reduce American influence and not apply US pressure against Russia or Iran. He grew in office, and by year eight he had become less naive, but a lot of damage had been done by then.
Biden left most of Trump's tariffs in place. Even now, with Trump tariffs devastating the world economy, Democrats are going out of their way to defend tariffs as, essentially, good in moderation. And these are not even the most progressive Democrats. The real progressives are even more tariff-friendly.
I just argued online with a progressive a few days ago who attacked Reagan's attempt to devolve power to the states as racist. Progressives have long wanted to centralize power in DC in order so subordinate the states to their agenda.
With respect to policy, Trump is the anti-Reagan, more in line with the historic policy preferences of the left.
You don't know what you're talking about and your evidence is nonsense.
1. You sound like a right winger with that "blame-America Marxism of his college professors" statement that was used against Obama by the right. Obama was not nor is a progressive but an "establishment" Democrat, a Clinton Democrat, and so continued existing policies in most cases rather than changing them.
2. The Democrats are not "going out of their way to defend tariffs". Although tariffs have their place, such as helping end dumping,
3. Trump is the logical conclusion to what Reagan started, to make government small enough to drown in a bathtub such that it couldn't regulate the wealthy nor control conservative infringement on rights as is happening in every state that they control.
4. Progressives see government as a necessary control of the wealthy and so have sought to use it as such, unlike the GOP that sees fit to allow the wealthy to become oligarchs and take control of government because libertarians and conservatives see the rich as better people who should lead.
5. Trump is not progressive by any measure, he's an authoritarian who has committed treason in his willful violation of the constitution with the full support of the GOP. All should hang.