07-01-2024, 07:40 AM
(06-30-2024, 08:55 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: You must have missed, or forgotten, all those Dem commercials back in the healthcare debate days about Republicans pushing granny off the cliff. They had actual commercials of a Paul Ryan look-alike wheeling granny up to the cliff, and pushing her over.
I indeed don't know about that. Not to accuse you of whataboutism directly, I don't take it as a defense of Trump, but this is just this kind of "Dem do it too" argument that doesn't really make things any better. My viewpoints are not at all fueled by wanting to stand up for democrats in the first place, it's just troubling that's all and they sure contributed plenty to get there.
(06-30-2024, 08:55 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Heck, Trump's whole "America first" is just a riff on the Clinton Dems 90's campaign of "fair trade". Whatever you want to call it, economic nationalism, protectionism or trade wars it's all the same.
Well ok, I wouldn't know when the US' policy was anything but America first. It's not the slogan, tariffs or protectionism that worry me.