Besides appointing conservative judges, what has trump done that is so far right?
He’s rejecting free trade, he’s sending billions in bailouts to farmers, he has pledged not to cut SS or MC, has blown up the deficit, added 1.9T over ten years to the debt from the tax cuts alone…cozied up to Putin, disparaged our law enforcement agency and intel. agency, cheated on his wife, and lies about 14 times a day.
As far left that the Democrats keep pushing and pushing this country, they will only keep pushing it until the have a one party system, and Socialism controls this country.
So I would say that Trump has to be an anomaly. Who else on the Republican side could have done what he’s doing? Nobody.
I first became aware of him during the Henry Louis Gates kerfuffle when he wrote a think piece that basically said that the REAL issue that should be discussed is why African Americans commit crimes at a higher rate… not that Gates shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.
That being said… he does have some well thought ideas sometimes. I read one of his books on ancient warfare and it was good. He isn’t dumb… but I think that he has an intentional blindness when it comes to some areas of politics.
It was not that long of a read actually, and he did a good job of recounting the last decade.
I think Obama’s plan was to weed out the blue collar Reagan Democrats and replace them with liberal, socialist progressives. This lost the dems many elected seats in state legislators and governorship.
The problem is, the people don’t really like Obama’s new angry far-left Democratic Party.
We’re lucky that Trump has actually made the Democratic party relatively popular again, if the generic congressional ballot is any indication, and it surely is.
What went wrong with Democrats was back in 1990 the 3rd way took over the party. This was a group of people that could not make it in the GOP so conned their way into the Dem party and turned the Dem party into GOP-lite while ignoring the base voters for last 40 years. This has shift US politics to the right and now we have far-right being considered normal, yet idiots think Obama and Clinton are some far right lefty communists. Those two love money as much as the idiot POTUS does and pass laws helping the rich while other idiots support them.