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The Surprisingly Strong Progressive Case For Donald Trump

 
 
 
Actually, the article made a better case for why progressives should not favor Trump. He lays out his batshit ideas and how he fits into what counts as "thought" within the mainstream of the current Republican party .

The article trumpets two positions in "strong progressive caes" for this candidate:
1) his stated aversion to deep cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and
2) his stated preference for universal health care.

The 1st position is not progressive or liberal in nature. It is simply not inhumane. The 2nd position might be progressive if he actually had some stated plan for achieving UHC other than "making deals" with hospitals and providers.
 
True, but ThinkProgress probably carries a little more weight with liberals/progressives than internet poster boneyard bill (or whoever it was that tried to convince us Rand Paul wouldn't be so bad from a liberal standpoint).
 
I want Trump to become the Republican candidate, only because I want to see Fox News squirm to support him.
 
They'd have to have the capacity for shame to squirm.

So there will be no squirming. They'll act like they were supporting him the whole time.
 
ksen said:
True, but ThinkProgress probably carries a little more weight with liberals/progressives than internet poster boneyard bill (or whoever it was that tried to convince us Rand Paul wouldn't be so bad from a liberal standpoint).
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You'll never be an authority on progressive bornyard bill. boneyard bill is a friend of mine. boneyard bill does more than ThinkProgress. boneyard bill demonstrates progress. Don't going around saying you can evaluate boneyard bill.
 
Wait, is this really a case FOR progressive support for the Donald?
Or is it showing that out of the GOP, Trump is the least offensive of a bad lot?
Or is it saying, don't laugh, he can still make it?

Whatever it's really saying the title isn't accurate.
 
ksen said:
True, but ThinkProgress probably carries a little more weight with liberals/progressives than internet poster boneyard bill (or whoever it was that tried to convince us Rand Paul wouldn't be so bad from a liberal standpoint).
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Anyone who takes that article's argument seriously is either an idiot or is not a progressive or a liberal.
 
So he's not necessarily a bad progressive candidate because of positions he used to hold that he now doesn't hold? What an awful article.
 
Fun aside. Obama got it right.

At his news conference, Mr. Obama went beyond Mr. Huckabee and the others to raise Mr. Trump, mentioning him several times by name without being asked just a week after cutting off a reporter who tried to ask about the businessman at a White House news conference on Iran. “Maybe this is just an effort to push Mr. Trump out of the headlines,” the president said of the Republican remarks.

Mr. Obama went on to note Mr. Trump’s assertion that Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and a former prisoner of war in North Vietnam, was not a genuine war hero. Mr. Obama, who defeated Mr. McCain in the 2008 presidential campaign, said it was offensive to “challenge the heroism of Mr. McCain, somebody who endured torture and conducted himself with exemplary patriotism.”

But the president also made it a broader indictment of the Republican Party, many of whose leaders denounced Mr. Trump’s remarks as well. “The Republican Party is shocked, and yet that arises out of a culture where those kinds of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and get circulated nonstop through the Internet and talk radio and news outlets,” Mr. Obama said. “And I recognize that when outrageous statements are made about me, a lot of the same people who were outraged when it’s made about Mr. McCain were pretty quiet.
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One thrust of Bernie Sanders campaign now is the widening gap between the rich and 99.5% of everyone else.

What are Trump's progressive ideas to deal with our oligarchy?
 
untermensche said:
One thrust of Bernie Sanders campaign now is the widening gap between the rich and 99.5% of everyone else.

What are Trump's progressive ideas to deal with our oligarchy?
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Aside from building a wall between the US and Mexico, I haven't heard much in the way of specific ideas from Trump at all.
 
Me either. He's got a secret plan that will mop up ISIS in a few weeks, but he won't share what it is until after he's President. And he's boasted repeatedly of how successful a businessman he is, which I guess means he'll teach everyone else how to be successful and then everyone will be rich.

Other than that, I haven't heard much else.
 
Oh, the late night show hosts would be cackling with glee. Jon Stewart will absolutely kick himself for retiring.
 
I would think if progressives wanted an old rich white person whose dubious achievements are mostly having the right name and connections they could just stick with Hillary.
 
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