A socialist is likely to win the 2020 election. No, not Bernie Sanders.
Unlike his preferred boogeymen (and boogeywomen) on the far left, though, Trump has actually implemented anti-market, Soviet-style, centrally planned policies, and he has used the power of the state to punish political enemies. He has merely chosen different beneficiaries (and victims) of his Big Government bigfooting.,,In some ways, in fact, Trump has proved himself a more successful socialist than Sanders is likely ever to be…Trump, meanwhile, has brainwashed his supposedly free-market party into backing a command-and-control-style economy. When it’s commanded-and-controlled by Trump, anyway. With nary a peep from his party, Trump has tried to prop up pet industries, such as coal, by government fiat…Trump has slapped tariffs on virtually every major trading partner around the world to protect favored industries, such as steel…Already, Trump’s farmer trade bailouts are more than double the size of the 2009 auto bailout…Trump’s version of socialism soaks the poor, not the rich…If conservatives are genuinely frightened by Sanders’s proposed downward redistribution of wealth, they might consider the sort of redistribution practiced by Trump — in particular, the many ways Trump has used his office to redistribute taxpayer dollars into his own pocket.
Food for thought…
A socialist is likely to win the 2020 election. No, not Bernie Sanders.
Unlike his preferred boogeymen (and boogeywomen) on the far left, though, Trump has actually implemented anti-market, Soviet-style, centrally planned policies, and he has used the power of the state to punish political enemies. He has merely chosen different beneficiaries (and victims) of his Big Government bigfooting.,,In some ways, in fact, Trump has proved himself a more successful socialist than Sanders is likely ever to be…Trump, meanwhile, has brainwashed his supposedly free-market party into backing a command-and-control-style economy. When it’s commanded-and-controlled by Trump, anyway. With nary a peep from his party, Trump has tried to prop up pet industries, such as coal, by government fiat…Trump has slapped tariffs on virtually every major trading partner around the world to protect favored industries, such as steel…Already, Trump’s farmer trade bailouts are more than double the size of the 2009 auto bailout…Trump’s version of socialism soaks the poor, not the rich…If conservatives are genuinely frightened by Sanders’s proposed downward redistribution of wealth, they might consider the sort of redistribution practiced by Trump — in particular, the many ways Trump has used his office to redistribute taxpayer dollars into his own pocket.
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