In the past week or so, I’ve seen a lot of Democrats who are oh, so upset about the idea that many Republicans are now beginning to coalesce around Clinton. You know, as if that proves she’s a Republican.
And the months of insisting Bernie would get a lot of independent and Republican votes just vanish. Poof! I’m not sure if the research has changed recently, but it was always true that the larger chunk of independents were mostly Republicans who thought the GOP wasn’t conservative enough — but who tended to vote that way, anyway. So the bulk of Bernie’s support has always come from, well, Republicans.
Does that still prove something?
Good button! Where can I get one??
And as for the coalescing Republicans, hello? It could also prove that some Republicans are not totally unprincipled selfish balls of slime. But that would be no fun. Doesn’t allow you to dump on somebody.
Max Boot? Bill Kristol? Richard Perle? Robert Kagan? Of course she’s not a Republican. She’s a liberal on social policy, neo-liberal on economic policy, neo-con on foreign policy Democrat to her bones. She will be great on family leave, luke warm on min wage, stone cold on union organizing, very cautious on Wall Street and banking reform, and all out on American Exceptionalism, the continuing absurdity of the military budget, and incinerating brown people in far away lands. Oh, and I’ll give you 20-1 she’ll reverse on TPP and TTIP, with her words becoming increasingly weasely as the general progresses.
The establishment Republicans who have controlled the party for a hundred years are all squealing like stuck pigs.
How dare the unwashed masses vote to nominate the likes of Donald Trump they whine in unison.
It’s very satisfying to watch the rich and powerful get their asses handed to them.
Many of Trump’s solutions to our problems are just flat wrong.
But at least his supporters had the guts and good sense to try and take back control of their party from the establishment plutocrats.
That’s a lesson Democratic voters should learn and not give the nomination to an establishment millionaire with a soft spot for Wall Street and military adventurism.
Most independent voters never got to express their opinion because the Democratic elites closed their primaries.
Good analysis, Adams.
Hang around a while and post more often.