In fact, if you closed your eyes, you would have thought many of Trump's positions were those of a Democrat. The use of government coercion, big spending, pandering to select groups, half-baked ideas, ad hominem arguments, and self-contradiction. Remember, Trump was a life-long NY Liberal.
In fact, if you closed your eyes, you would have thought many of Trump's positions were those of a Democrat. The use of government coercion, big spending, pandering to select groups, half-baked ideas, ad hominem arguments, and self-contradiction. Remember, Trump was a life-long NY Liberal.
Yup, indeed many of his "hard right" policies seemed to be purely in response to media wags telling him he could not do them. Al Gore tried to take advantage of this Trump contrarian tendency when he had a successful early meeting with Trump on environmental policies immediately after the election while Trump was still sore at the Republican establishment .. but then Al Gore was shouted down by his own Party for "normalizing" the Trump presidencly.
In fact, if you closed your eyes, you would have thought many of Trump's positions were those of a Democrat. The use of government coercion, big spending, pandering to select groups, half-baked ideas, ad hominem arguments, and self-contradiction. Remember, Trump was a life-long NY Liberal.
Yup, indeed many of his "hard right" policies seemed to be purely in response to media wags telling him he could not do them. Al Gore tried to take advantage of this Trump contrarian tendency when he had a successful early meeting with Trump on environmental policies immediately after the election while Trump was still sore at the Republican establishment .. but then Al Gore was shouted down by his own Party for "normalizing" the Trump presidencly.