Beet
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« on: December 25, 2016, 03:08:58 PM » |
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« edited: December 25, 2016, 03:29:03 PM by Beet »
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As Dore says, Clinton was on the wrong side on a number of issues, including TPP, foreign policy, and banking regulation. Not only did she take the more right-wing position on these issues compared to Trump, but she also took the more unpopular one. The whole point of Clintonite triangulation was supposed to be that left-wing positions are objectively unpopular, so they'll adopt the Republican position so they can at least win and slow the right-wing slide of the country. It wasn't that we adopt the more unpopular position, which is also more right-wing. It would be like Ronald Reagan losing to Jimmy Carter because he campaigned on big government and detente. Triangulation was all well and clever until the donors actually took over the party and their grip on it was more important than actually winning, let alone standing for anything.
Edit: And I'm not one of those "Sanders woulda won, there's zillions of far left communists in Ohio that we just didn't know about who stayed home" types. But good god, the deliberate effort by the Clinton camp to remove any semblance of ideological contrast from the campaign when progressives have spent years building arguments (often successfully) for these positions was just dumb. The policy domain was ceded to Trump, despite the 113,000 words on Clinton's website.
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