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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)6 Key Issues Where Trump Neutralizes Hillary or Runs to Her Left [View all]
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/6-key-issues-where-trump-neutralizes-hillary-or-runs-her-leftSome experts think Hillary could be in trouble against Trump, who goes left and right simultaneously.
President Obama has repeatedly said theres no way Americans would elect Donald Trump president. But Democrats dont have to think back very far to dismaying GOP victories where they were left asking, what happened? There was George W. Bush in Ohio in 2004, in Florida in 2000 and Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Trumps continuing path toward the 2016 GOP nomination has already confounded the pundits, political junkies and oft-quoted scholars. Before last week when he won big in Florida, Illinois and North Carolina, the Nations William Greider wrote, The Democratic Party could find itself obliterated by this election" and offered "a sequence of events I find plausible. He started with Trump getting the nomination, Bernie Sanders retiring gracefully so he will not be labeled a spoiler, and then Trump doing something not seen in a long time: taking hard-right and hard-left positions.
Then, in the fall campaign, Trump changes his style and launches a ferocious and substantive assault on [Hillary] Clinton, with devastating effect. He does this essentially by taking over Sanders' economic agenda. He denounces HRC as a tool of wealthy plutocrats and speaks for working-class discontents, much as he has done in the primary season, wrote Grieder. Imagine a campaign that merges Bernies straight-talk values with traditional Republican values.
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1. The Anti-Free Trader.
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2. Cutting Americas Military Budget.
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3. Rejecting Big Money Political Corruption.
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4. Preserving Social Security and Medicare.
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5. Lowering Seniors Prescription Drug Costs.
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6. Breaking Health Insurance Monopolies.
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Clinton looses on these 6 issues. Even if she attempts to triangulate or 'evolve' on these, not many will believe her.
What will Hillary do when Trump offers the above agenda to Democrats and his racist xenophobic to his right wing supporters?
Here's one "what if":
Your choice Democrats (White people), is you get to have the agenda of 6 above, which is LEFT of Clinton, if you're willing to throw non-whites under the bus. This will be a tough choice for some. Let's see, shut down free trade and bring jobs back, Keep my social security and medicare even expand them, cheaper medication, if I am willing to ignore the racism and xenophobia.
Trump cannot get LEFT of Bernie Sanders on anything.
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This isn't puffing up Trump. Its the truth. Its why Hillary will lose & people should vote
RiverLover
Mar 2016
#6
I'm not the person who decides who gets banned or not, who is pumping up Trump or not. I don't
seaglass
Mar 2016
#10
Not sure why you thought you needed to tell me that, but okie-dokie. (nm)
Lizzie Poppet
Mar 2016
#12
no one but Trump Humping trolls are claiming Trump is to Clinton's left on health care
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#27
The point is Trump can run to the left of Hillary on healthcare and there's video to back him up.
Scuba
Mar 2016
#75
I know, we live in the same purple state - we were gonna meet up at convention.
PeaceNikki
Mar 2016
#78
One issue where both Sanders and Trump are to the right of Hillary is gun control.
Thinkingabout
Mar 2016
#3
Nonsense. The sole significant difference between Clinton and Sanders on gun control...
Lizzie Poppet
Mar 2016
#8
Yes, there is a difference in Hillary and Sanders on gun control, Sanders is on the right with Trump
Thinkingabout
Mar 2016
#14
"Nuisance lawsuits as a dodge past the inability to get what one wants via the democratic process"
NuclearDem
Mar 2016
#30
so you're claiming the Sandy Hook parents are launching a nuisance lawsuit? nt
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#40
Nor am I. But that has nothing to do with any difference between Bernie and Hillary on gun control.
Lizzie Poppet
Mar 2016
#69
Voting against the Brady Bill five times is a failure for me to change my mind
Thinkingabout
Mar 2016
#73
People who care about those issues will all vote for Hillary just like people who want
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#29
Let's have some proportion. If gun control is your key issue, there is some point to be made here...
highprincipleswork
Mar 2016
#82
If that's your big issue, then I understand. It's not mine, though I think it's horrible.
highprincipleswork
Mar 2016
#90
No, it's flatout dishonest. Clinton is running to Trump's left on health care and Social Security.
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#56
Supporting Hillary in the primary is supporting Drumph in the general, because she'll lose to him.
Electric Monk
Mar 2016
#36
Wishful thinking. Clinton will beat Trump, as every poll and every credible
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#38
But his position on this leaves little room for contrast, thus the 'neutralization' argument.
Snarkoleptic
Mar 2016
#63
Trump's trade policy sounds like Coolidge and Hoover. That ain't 'left' of anybody.
pampango
Mar 2016
#60
This OP and the Alternet article presume that Trump ever means anything he says.
Koinos
Mar 2016
#61
The OP sings the praises of Trump's detail-free policy positions. This is the Democratic Underground
Trust Buster
Mar 2016
#86
My partisan lunacy ? You Sanders supporters are the ones puffing up Trump. DESPERATE.
Trust Buster
Mar 2016
#93
This is so key. Hillary may not really be the "safe" choice at all!!!!!
highprincipleswork
Mar 2016
#79
Cause the adults really believe anything that comes out of that assholes mouth? tia
uponit7771
Mar 2016
#87