As it happens, Clinton’s agenda, as my colleague Adam Davidson also wrote the other day, does have a unifying theme. It’s the same one that Democrats have been running on for twenty-five years, a period in which they have won the popular vote in five out of six Presidential elections, and it involves using the power of the government to tilt the economy in favor of working people. Trump, although he talks like a populist, has largely adopted the regressive economic policies of the Republican establishment.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-presidential-debate-is-clintons-chance-to-outfox-trump?intcid=mod-latest
They have been running on for 25 years? More like 100 years. More federal government power, more pretense that the federal government pulling strings will give us the predicted results without the negative unintended consequences. Giving more power to an already over-reaching federal government is just giving more booze and faster cars to teens. I would say only idiots could think this will work, but I know too many smart people who are still caught in this fantasy.
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