(05-23-2016, 09:27 AM)Anthony Wrote: Donald Trump is a national liberal - with even a slight left-liberal tinge: He says he doesn't care what bathrooms transgenders use, and has hemmed and hawed on abortion from Day One - while advocating policies that would send wages soaring, particularly for the lowest-paid workers, and would grant total tax forgiveness to the working poor.Lind comes across as trying very hard to believe your thesis. It seems to me that you and he are working with some mighty thin gruel. Trump is offering very little that will material affect the economic situation of working class Americans. Of course, all of Trump's Republican opponents were offering even less.
The economic problem workers face today is not a new one. An earlier generation of workers faced a similar situation during the Gilded Age. Their attempt at a solution was to create a an organized entity for the explicit purpose of looking out for worker's economic interests, labor unions. It look generations, but after WW II workers made major gains. Labor unions were a key part of this success. They needed political allies and had them.
For 60 years Republicans and Southern conservatives have worked to destroy unions.
Now you are saying that the nominee of the party containing both of these groups is a national liberal with a leftist tinge?
