Which Party System Would You Prefer

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Obviously the 2nd one and its not even remotely close

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Trumpist GOP/Berniecrat Democratic Party easily

Even with the fact that the GOP really wouldnt be economically populist in that option

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Option 2 (sane, not rich)

Wait you would take the Romney-Clinton one

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In the end of the day there's no ideological consistency or logic to it. The left wing people who prefer Trump to Romney do this because of pure style- Trump is cooler and saying you prefer him makes you feel like a down to earth populist. Even if it requires ignoring that he tried to destroy democracy.

Actually if you read my post you'll see the one thing I listed that made me prefer Trump to Romney was a difference in policy. It is distinctly policy and substance, and not rhetoric, which makes the decisive difference.

Such is not the case for centrist Democrats. They will eat up any talk of Romney and John McCain being Never-Trump Republicans "saviors" despite the fact that, policy for policy, Romney and McCain are nearly identical to Trump, who himself is identical to nearly every other Republican. The so-called "moderate" Republicans who get championed by the media for stepping up to "Trumpism" are only opposed to Trump on the grounds of decorum (e.g. his "mean tweets," for being unpresidential, for saying things openly rather than being concealed, etc.). When it comes to actual policy (tax cuts for the rich, environmental regulations, Wall Street etc.) they are perfectly lined up. On only a few issues (e.g. trade) do they differ at all

Except in This scenario the Romney republicans are to the left of trumpists republicans on economics