He moderated on entitlement cuts in 2016, he moderates by being big on protectionism and tariffs against the wishes of the chamber of commerce republicans, he targeted working class latino voters in Nevada wit the no tax on tips. He said he would not sign a nation wide abortion ban against the wishes of the anti abortion lobby.
The next time you’re about to feign incredulity when accused of contrarianism, maybe pause and reflect on the time you tried to make the argument that, “well ackshyually, Donald Trump was a moderate.”
Seriously, these are your examples? A Republican pledging to cut taxes? Moving to the right of John McCain to try and repeal the ACA with no replacement plan? Self-destructive nationalism? Taking credit for state-level abortion bans that are abhorrent to two-thirds of the country?
Your idea of a moderate is someone who got called a “race-baiting xenophobic bigot” by
Lindsay Graham? And this is what you want Democrats to emulate?
Trump had the most extreme, far-right administration in our lifetimes. In some ways, his 2024 campaign has gone even further: He’s promised the largest mass deportation operation in the nation’s history. He vowed to expand the federal death penalty. He told wild lies about schools performing gender reassignment surgeries and Haitian immigrants eating pets. Have you
seen Project 2025?
Oh, but he spoke at a church in Detroit (which he referred to as “the hood”) in front of this crowd:
That’s your evidence?
Weren’t you the one saying that Harris
over-performed by turning a sure loss into a coin flip?
You argue that Democrats have become “too extreme,” but when it comes to economic policies you want them to go
further left. You only want them to move right on social issues and pretend this is some sober, high level analysis that has nothing to do with your own longstanding personal preferences. Does anyone here buy that? I’m not seeing it.
There’s no reason to believe that capitulation would accomplish anything positive. Harris ran to the right on immigration and still got smeared for supporting “open borders.”
You want all these things to be true at the same time:
- Bigotry isn’t a deal-breaker for swing voters.
- Anti-bigotry IS a deal-breaker for swing voters.
- And further diluting Democrats’ already compromised positions on social issues is going to somehow outflank demagoguery for those same voters who are unbothered by racism but bothered by anti-racism.
Good luck with that.
You gotta be f'n kiddin me
Apparently we’re supposed to believe that this is a good thing and it’s high time universities stopped engaging in “identity politics.”
We mustn’t push back on this, lest we anger the moderates!
Learned helplessness.
