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« on: June 28, 2016, 06:44:19 PM » |
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Let's look at it like this... What parts of Bernie Sanders' persona would "fly" in the GOP (even in liberal New England)? A candidate who retained his suspicion of unfettered free trade, nominal support for gun rights, and foreign policy dovishness would probably be electable in Vermont. Assuming he's a Republican, he's still pro-choice, supports maybe some sort of "Romneycare", though attempts to distinguish it from Obamacare, supports Israel, maybe courts the granola vote (which includes homeschooling evangelicals on the right) with suspicion of GMO's, and so on. Obviously, we remove "billionaire class" rhetoric, his identification as a socialist, student loan forgiveness, and so on. Perhaps an emphasis on tax cuts for the middle class. At the end of the day, we see a combination of Old Right and Rockefeller Republicanism that might be electable, even in the GOP, in Vermont on a good year. In the GOP primaries, in a 2016 that lacks Trump, he might be able to pull off a win in New Hampshire based on a combination of moderates and populists. Trump has shown that the GOP has a substantial amount that are outside the Heritage Foundation orthodoxy that might vote for a candidate of "pure rage". Perhaps Sanders could have channeled this to a few wins in New England and the West?
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