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The collapse of the political left
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | Michael Barone

Posted on 12/08/2016 4:48:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Things look different now, and not just because Donald Trump was elected president. It has been clear that most voters have been rejecting big government policies, and not just in the United States but in most democratic nations around the world.

Leftist politicians supposed that ordinary voters with modest incomes facing hard times would believe that regulation and redistribution would help them. Evidently most don't.

The rejection was apparent in the 2010 and subsequent House elections; Republicans have now won House majorities in ten of the last 12 elections, leaving 2006 and 2008 as temporary aberrations. You didn't hear Hillary Clinton campaign on the glories of Obamacare or the Iran nuclear deal, and her attack on "Trumped-up, trickle-down economics" didn't strike any chords in the modest-income Midwest.

Republican success has been even greater in governor and state legislature elections, to the point that Democrats hold governorships and legislative control only in California, Hawaii, Delaware and Rhode Island. After eight years of the Obama presidency, Democrats hold fewer elective offices than at any time since the 1920s.

Things look similar abroad. Britain's Conservatives, returned to government in 2010, are in a commanding position over a left-lurching Labour party. France's Socialist president, with single-digit approval, declined to run for a second term. European social democratic parties have been hemorrhaging votes, and got walloped in Sunday's Italian referendum. In Latin America and Asia, the left is declining or on the defensive.

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To: justiceseeker93

Trump’s platform was more Conservative than Reagan’s, and you agree that there wasn’t a Conservative on the ballot.

LOL


61 posted on 12/11/2016 12:16:28 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: justiceseeker93
Trump proposes cutting corporate taxes and regulations. he also proposed protective tariffs to promote domestic industry. Nothing liberal or leftist about that.

OTH Free Trade and open borders are Marxist philosophies.

62 posted on 12/11/2016 12:21:22 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Trump proposes cutting corporate taxes and regulations. he also proposed protective tariffs to promote domestic industry. Nothing liberal or leftist about that.

Agree that cutting corporate (or many other) taxes is a conservative concept. Same with cutting government regulations.

But with regard to tariffs, if you look at American history, depending on the era and the product, I think both conservatives and leftists have been both for and against, so that's kind of a gray area as to whether you would call it conservative or "liberal."

63 posted on 12/11/2016 7:38:52 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: SamAdams76

So true; I’m thrilled Trump won but I know this was a very close election. There are MASSES of people like those in your pic.

FRegards!


64 posted on 12/12/2016 3:39:40 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: DoughtyOne; Political Junkie Too; randita; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; InterceptPoint; ml/nj; ...
Trump’s platform was more Conservative than Reagan’s...

I disagree on that, but please give me some specifics that support your case.

The important thing is that Trump distinguished himself enough from HRC (and also from McCain in '08 and Romney in '12) to eke out the win, not as much as a conservative but as a populist. (Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that he did win nonetheless.)

But to say Trump was more conservative in his campaign than Reagan was when Reagan won by 10 percentage points and won all but about 6 states vs. Carter in 1980, just doesn't work.

65 posted on 12/12/2016 6:34:08 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: wintertime

Completely close the Department of Education.


Agree...shut down the Dem Indoctrination Agency.


66 posted on 12/12/2016 6:37:14 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow!)
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To: kearnyirish2
I quite agree. With the 2008 election there were numerous articles regarding the total Republican collapse. It was a possibility with the past Republican leaders that were in control.

Perhaps Trump will build on his election...his first six months will certainly give us a window on the Republican future.

67 posted on 12/12/2016 6:56:59 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen (ELITE IMMUNITY: how the puppetmasters / puppets continue to function)
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To: justiceseeker93
[Trump campaigned] not as much as a conservative but as a populist

Populist is a virtually meaningless word. What politician says he favors the ruling elite over the common man?

ML/NJ

68 posted on 12/12/2016 7:07:42 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: justiceseeker93
The important thing is that Trump distinguished himself enough from HRC (and also from McCain in '08 and Romney in '12) to eke out the win...

TRUE

69 posted on 12/12/2016 8:14:51 AM PST by GOPJ (We've been lied to so many times by the MSM we might be living in a world that doesn't exist.Willia)
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To: justiceseeker93

Wall on the border

Sending illegals home

Defunding planned parenthood

If you need more, look it up yourself.


70 posted on 12/12/2016 10:50:24 AM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Let’s hope so; there is an opportunity to peel off Dem constituents that other Republicans were unable to attract.


71 posted on 12/13/2016 4:09:45 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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