RFK in, Tusli in, Kash in.
I haven't been this optimistic about the country since Obama was elected. That turned out to be a huge disaster, so hopefully my judgement now is better informed.
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Trump was always running as the underdog so if the Republicans won in '08 or '12 then he would have ran as a Democrat instead.
It's not that simple though. The structure of the Dem primaries is much more conducive to being rigged against someone the big donors don't want. It would have been much more difficult to get in through the Dems. Not to mention just how different his platform would have needed to be.
You think the democratic platform would've allowed him in? The Republicans in his own party already showed him plenty of resistance back in 2016, the Democrats would have been far worse about keeping him out, let alone that his policies are pretty much the exact opposite of what a 2010s democrat would've wanted.
I don't know that this was true... His policies were almost exactly what Obama ran on, what Kerry ran on, what Gore ran on, and what Clinton ran on. He just wasn't as diplomatic about it.
I liked what he was saying in '16, I just figured he was another rich demagogue who didn't mean it. I didn't think he was Hitler, just that he wasn't sincere. It was probably only because of Gamergate that I had become completely disillusioned with the mainstream media so I no longer trusted their smears, otherwise I would have likely believed the lies told about him and hell, might have even repeated the "she's the most qualified candidate ever" mantra.
Actually, nah. She was awful. That was evident to anyone who listened to her.
So... ending NAFTA, stopping Obamacare, bringing back American manufacturing and production, reducing taxes, ending foreign war involvement, ending illegal immigration, cleaning out corruption, and generally deregulating industry was exactly what those guys ran on?
Wow, coulda fooled me.
Ending foreign wars, illegal immigration, cutting corruption, and bringing back jobs, yeah.
At least, those were the things that were important to me at the time. There was a lot of overlap.
Obviously they were just lying to get elected; doesn't change what they said out on the campaign trail.