Would a Left version of Trump ever work?

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

No because their own interest groups would clutch their pearls at the first thing deemed offensive

Imagine the candidate making a comment about women or homosexuals / transsexuals?

Dems were ready to get Al Franken out the paint so fast

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Yes possible, any type of personality can do it.
Whether a leftist trump or a Dennis Kuccinich
If mainstream media would push that person enough they'll have a chance

No. Dem primary voters love civility,.

not recently... not anymore

 

[get these nets]

I'd be all for it honestly, we are waaay past "when they go low, we go high"
being an effective way to govern

Only practical approach, though.
Once you stoop to Rep. level you lose, because there is NO limit to how low they will go or what their constituents will tolerate.

 

[MidwestD]

did you guys somehow forget how incompetent Trump was?

and yet, he still got 3 picks to the Supreme Court, flooded the courts
nationally, and his donors got everything they wanted.

A left version of Trump that would be willing to go to the mat, and has some
charisma and political savvy would be a game changer

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

It could but it would be very difficult because they would have to do without the support of monied interests. A Trump-type leftist would have to go hard at corporate America. Trump had free reign to be a piece of shyt and still get corporate dollars and backing.

This and only this. A leftist Trump, or more accurately a left version of what MAGA idiots think Trump is but really is nothing like, i.e. someone who "tells it like it is" would never receive the financial backing necessary to win a presidential election. And he or she for damn sure wouldn't ever be embraced by the Democratic Party or corporate media.

 

[get these nets]

It could but it would be very difficult because they would have to do without the support of monied interests. A Trump-type leftist would have to go hard at corporate America. Trump had free reign to be a piece of shyt and still get corporate dollars and backing.

Candidate go hard on "corporate America" "corporate interests" and "corporate special interests" publicly all the time. Donations from those same groups continue to pour in. shyt is lipservice.

If a Trump-leftist emerged as a viable candidate, he'd get backed by the same corporate donors.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Candidate go hard on "corporate America" "corporate interests" and "corporate special interests" publicly all the time. Donations from those same groups continue to pour in. shyt is lipservice.

If a Trump-leftist emerged as a viable candidate, he'd get backed by the same corporate donors.

Then they wouldn’t be a leftist, they’d be a neoliberal.

 

[mastermind]

This and only this. A leftist Trump, or more accurately a left version of what MAGA idiots think Trump is but really is nothing like, i.e. someone who "tells it like it is" would never receive the financial backing necessary to win a presidential election. And he or she for damn sure wouldn't ever be embraced by the Democratic Party or corporate media.

It could but it would be very difficult because they would have to do without the support of monied interests. A Trump-type leftist would have to go hard at corporate America. Trump had free reign to be a piece of shyt and still get corporate dollars and backing.

Exactly this. It would be a failure to get off the ground because the DNC and their media friends would kneecap them. They wouldn’t get on TV and be seen as a joke candidate.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Still no convincing arguments

 

[Payday23]

Still no convincing arguments

See what happened to Bernie. Twice.

 

[JLova]

No. Dems who rape women go bye bye!

 

[Micky Mikey]

We need someone relatively young, brash, unhinged, and extremely charismatic.

Part of Trumps appeal was that he just didn't give a fukk about certain customs, even though he was basically a neo-liberal. We need someone just as charismatic as he is but is to the left.

 

[Pressure]

Yes because who would reject things that are actually good for them? You just have to advertise it correctly and the dems suck at that.

-HL

"We need a left wing authoritarian type who looks to serve beyond their constitutional term." - HL

"hey, let's whitewash Trump and turn him into Lula." - HL

"We need a leader worthy of a T-shirt, amirite?" - HL

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

No because their moral mishaps actually do sink them unlike their counterparts. Al Franken is the prime example.

No he’s not, Franken deserved what he got. A leftist a$$hole wouldn’t have kept Franken around either

 

[Ezra]

Trump 'worked' because as much as he spouted populist rhetoric, drain the swamp, he very much kept establishment and corporate business at the top of the priority. He deregulated, he cut taxes for the elites, he installed corporate and establishment judges. He used right wing populism to get in power, but used it primarily to protect the swamp and everything he railed against. He was never a real threat to the establishment

A leftist version of him - brash, bold, giving zero fukks and breaking norms, creating new ones that moved the needle for leftist policies would get cut down so fast. Would make the media's treatment of Bernie look soft