He's either insulting leftists or the American system is wholly incongruent with the real spectrum of world views, right? He can call them money grubbing and ineffectual and he'd be spot on, but c'mon man, I'm posting hard over here and I feel like chopped liver the way he ignores me!
It’s intentional obfuscation to tar us with the same brush as centrists. If revolutionary radicals are the same as centre right bourgeois politicians, the only other option is to vote for wannabe fash psychos
I mostly agree with this, but he's using obfuscation to tar centrists and establishment Dems with the same brush as us.
Communism bad is an easy argument that resonates with a majority of his constituents. I'd be shocked if leftists figured into any GOP strategies outside of useful punching bags for making Dems look frightening/ridiculous.
You say that, but didn't Bernie perform well on Fox News? He got more military donations than Trump. Populism gets the people going. Nobody in the fucking world, and good lord I mean nobody, thinks subsidized COBRA is cool unless you're an insurance exec who has bought a fleet of politicians. There's an apatite for Americans having good things instead of lib shit even if communism is a bad word.
Populism gets the people going.
Undeniably. What I'm getting at though is that Dems gatekeep leftists out of electoral politics anyway.
The GOP centering a strategy around leftists would be like designing your finals playbook around an underdog from a different division. A waste of time because you're not fighting them for the championship.
Very true. As an aside, the “democrats are commies” narrative makes me wanna blow my brains out more than anything lol. Except maybe libs calling Mitch McConnell a communist agent lol
It's to tar the centrists in eyes of his supporters. To insist the Democrats are all radical dangerous leftists. They thought Obama was a socialist don't forget.
Ahhh, so it's like salting the Earth in case another left wing populist comes up, right? They talk about seizing the memes and the opposition says they want massive corporations, means testing, feminist imperialism, and other such lib shit, right?
I do wonder if it's this or just genuine stupidity. Hanlon's razor and all that.
He’s fully integrated into the rot, he knows that democrats are not radical leftists. But he knows that the chud masses eat that shit up and don’t know the difference between leftists and liberals. Look how many memes on fb there are calling “rioters” Biden supporters.
I think he’s so stupid and his brain is so rotted that whatever is convenient for him to believe literally is his reality.
Yeah I remember when the Tim Apple thing happened, I was literally in tears laughing. Steve Bannon apparently told people that the "build the wall" thing was just supposed to be a mnemonic device that he told Trump to get him to remember to talk about immigration during the campaign, but Trump's baby brain just hears something and instantiates it as a literal reality instantly lol. I don't think Trump is capable of metaphor at all.