2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[Pressure]

How is the article I posted misinformed propaganda??

Trump is against Free Trade deals (so he claims). That's not Neo-Liberal. Trump is a right-wing populist who shares some policy beliefs with Neo-Liberals (militarism, few regulations on financial institutions) but hates social safety nets more than the typical Neo-Lib.

Trump ran on:

• Economic austerity through the reduction of deficit spending
• Reducing the size of government
• Eliminating regulations and requiring a 2 to 1 rule for any new regulations
• Decreasing taxes
• Shifting government resources to the private sector to get things done and eliminate waste
• Decreasing public ownership of land so that it can be used by private corporations
• That economic growth is the end all be all of success and thus took steps to cook the economy
• Repeal Obamacare because the government has no place in the Healthcare market because the free market will yield better results

This is textbook neoliberalism

 

[Pressure]

Taking it a step further, the most anti-neoliberal thing Trump has done is institute Tarrifs to kick off a trade war.

The problem here is that:

• The Tarrifs are almost certainly temporary to force a free trade agreement
• Largely unpopular

 

[saturn7]

Trump ran on:

• Economic austerity through the reduction of deficit spending
• Reducing the size of government
• Eliminating regulations and requiring a 2 to 1 rule for any new regulations
• Decreasing taxes
• Shifting government resources to the private sector to get things done and eliminate waste
• Decreasing public ownership of land so that it can be used by private corporations
• That economic growth is the end all be all of success and thus took steps to cook the economy
• Repeal Obamacare because the government has no place in the Healthcare market because the free market will yield better results

This is textbook neoliberalism

Classic small government conservatism. Nothing Neo about this.

The neolibs feign some concern for the public and don't believe in the total elimination of "entitlements".

Obamacare was the Neoliberal solution to the problem of Healthcare.

 

[Pressure]

Classic small government conservatism. Nothing Neo about this.

The neolibs feign some concern for the public and don't believe in the total elimination of "entitlements".

Obamacare was the Neoliberal solution to the problem of Healthcare.

You want neoliberalism to be something it isn't so you can use it as a pejorative.

What you call classic small government conservatism, something you likely attribute to raegan, is neoliberalism. :Bucketsumad:

 

[Pressure]

Obamacare/The affordable care act/Romney care is the result of a conservative think tank so there's really no surprise to see neoliberalism present in its core function.

But taking a step back Obama would likely be seen as attempting to bring back a lot of keynesian economic theory in response to the depression.

But like his political platform and foreign policy, his economic policy is also a mixed bag.



Hillary Clinton's platform was certainly less neoliberalism than Trump or Obama and likely Biden.

 

[88m3]

this isn't useful.

Even Obama supports universal health care.

but HOW to get it done is something Sanders always skates on.

It's cowardly

 

[No1]

Trump ran on:

• Economic austerity through the reduction of deficit spending
• Reducing the size of government
• Eliminating regulations and requiring a 2 to 1 rule for any new regulations
• Decreasing taxes
• Shifting government resources to the private sector to get things done and eliminate waste
• Decreasing public ownership of land so that it can be used by private corporations
• That economic growth is the end all be all of success and thus took steps to cook the economy
• Repeal Obamacare because the government has no place in the Healthcare market because the free market will yield better results

This is textbook neoliberalism

He also ran on new trade deals and bringing back American manufacturing and racism. He ran a fukkery campaign.

 

[Pressure]

He also ran on need trade deals and bringing back American manufacturing and racism. He ran a fukkery campaign.

He just says whatever he thinks people want to hear. So much fukkery. He's guided by zero principles. It's as insane as it is infuriating that people fell for it and continue to fall for it.

Actually, now that I think about it. People didn't completely fall for it. He was questioned about it and his response was that he'd hire the best people - - he hasn't.

But what we've seen is more fukkery as there is more turnover. He went from the protectionist in Bannon and Navarro to neoliberals such as Mnuchin and Kudlow.

Just fukkery.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

labels don't really work w/ trump (except for white nationalist/supremacist) b/c he doesnt actually have core beliefs beyond whatever is beneficial to his own interests.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

bytch ass Dems.

House Democrats clamoring for Donald Trump’s tax information have eagerly awaited a newly passed New York law allowing limited access to the president’s state returns.



They’re about to be sorely disappointed.



House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal would be the only Democrat allowed by the new law to ask for the documents, but so far he has said he won’t do it.



Neal has said he fears that getting the state returns would bolster Trump administration arguments that Congress is on a political fishing expedition -- and not, as Neal has claimed, overseeing the Internal Revenue Service’s annual audits of the president.

 

[Hood Critic]

Biden is kind of fukking this all up.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Biden is going to flame out.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[Pressure]

Biden is going to flame out.

Or shine a scary spotlight on where America is as a country

 

[JoogJoint]

B, b, b,but this is a center right country! Shouldn't normalcy and the status quo suffice?!

What a lot of people aren't thinking about is what demographic besides Black Baby Boomers and older Generation X (mixed races of people) is going to vote for somebody like Joe Biden and the rest of these jokers? None energize the younger people, non-voters, swing voters, progressives and liberals, etc.

The fact that people believe a significant amount of White Trump supporters going to vote for Biden instead is hilariously sad.
I live in Trump country (SC to be exact). That sh_t ain't happening.