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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is the most-liked politician in the United States. [View all]BainsBane
(53,166 posts)44. We spent the last few years being told many of those issues were not true progressivism
That they were "peanuts," and didn't really count. Clinton was always to the left of Sanders when it came to many of those issues. The ONE issue we were told mattered was TPP. And the Trump campaign demonstrates that economic populism can just as easily be cooped by the right as the left. That so many Bernie or Busters prefer Trump shows how little so-called progressive policies mattered to them. In fact, they came to define progressivism in ways that bear too much in common with white nationalism and habitually used misogynistic slurs and racial tropes to advance their arguments. JPR demonstrates that in stark terms, and their arguments are indistinguishable from the most mendacious Trump surrogates.
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We spent the last few years being told many of those issues were not true progressivism
BainsBane
Oct 2016
#44
yes, i hope she doesn't back off the progressive agenda. he's a valuable ally in the move forward.
liberalla
Oct 2016
#20
I like Bernie less every time this kind of thing is posted. This is Hillary's time.
nolabear
Oct 2016
#9
Clinton's ratings were in the 60s (maybe 70s) when she was Secretary of State
BainsBane
Oct 2016
#39