07-22-2016, 11:08 PM
I think Hillary will need to show she can go to the left in many of her other appointments, and not do what Bill and Barack did and appoint Wall Street lawyers and executives. If she does not often go left, the Sanders wing will continue to grow, and Hillary and her wing will continue to be seen as "the Establishment." In a 4T that is a risky course to take.
But Trump picking Pence was the same strategy as Clinton picking Kaine-- the safe and boring choice. So the only one of the four of them that is not safe and boring is Trump himself.
I don't think the Trump strategy of appealing to white working/middle class men is going to work in the "long term;" not at all! I think that demographic is losing in the long term. In fact, the working class itself is going out. Workers are disappearing. There will have to be more safety nets for people that the machine does not employ, and Republicans do not offer that. Even Trump does not, although he gives lip service to infrastructure building, better trade deals and keeping social security, etc. He cannot finance those things with his severe tax cuts.
The safety net will have to be expanded in the automated and globalized future, which goes against the entire Reaganomics program of self-reliance and "government is the problem" ideology. America First is also a losing strategy, because globalization cannot be stopped; only adjusted to, and wrestled away from control by the class from which Trump comes.
But Trump picking Pence was the same strategy as Clinton picking Kaine-- the safe and boring choice. So the only one of the four of them that is not safe and boring is Trump himself.
I don't think the Trump strategy of appealing to white working/middle class men is going to work in the "long term;" not at all! I think that demographic is losing in the long term. In fact, the working class itself is going out. Workers are disappearing. There will have to be more safety nets for people that the machine does not employ, and Republicans do not offer that. Even Trump does not, although he gives lip service to infrastructure building, better trade deals and keeping social security, etc. He cannot finance those things with his severe tax cuts.
The safety net will have to be expanded in the automated and globalized future, which goes against the entire Reaganomics program of self-reliance and "government is the problem" ideology. America First is also a losing strategy, because globalization cannot be stopped; only adjusted to, and wrestled away from control by the class from which Trump comes.