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My father always told me:
"If you want to go for a run, go for a run, don't look for company.
Sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, like-minded people will find you themselves."
And only recently have I realised that this principle works everywhere.
I think that it will be a good thing for Republican and MAGA voters to suffer the consequences of their vote. These idiots, and they are idiots, don't seem to understand that it was the very thing that what they are having destroyed is what created our extensive and inclusive middle class. Them suffering under an illiberal, anti-constitutional Republican Party may not even change their minds or educate them, but them suffering yet another bad decision on their part is priceless.
However, I still…
The problem with progressives is that they agree with too many of Trump's bad ideas - e.g., protectionism, ending American world leadership, centralizing power. There is a reason why so many Bernie supporters ended up voting for Trump in 2016.
I don't see any of that. People voted for Trump in part because they said that they believed that he cared about them and did not think the same about Kamala because her messaging missed that mark. Progressives promote policies that benefit the working class, including taxing the rich to end their skim of worker wealth and so actually care, unlike the Clinton Democrats that have supported policies that eroded the middle class as shown by voting records.
How can you not see it? I'll lay out the obvious evidence.
Before Trump, America's Russia-friendly anti-NATO faction was entirely on the left. Even Obama, steeped in the blame-America Marxism of his college professors, started his presidency wanting to reduce American influence and not apply US pressure against Russia or Iran. He grew in office, and by year eight he had become less naive, but a lot of damage had been done by then.
Biden left most of Trump's tariffs in place. Even now, with Trump tariffs devastating the world economy, Democrats are going out of their way to defend tariffs as, essentially, good in moderation. And these are not even the most progressive Democrats. The real progressives are even more tariff-friendly.
I just argued online with a progressive a few days ago who attacked Reagan's attempt to devolve power to the states as racist. Progressives have long wanted to centralize power in DC in order so subordinate the states to their agenda.
With respect to policy, Trump is the anti-Reagan, more in line with the historic policy preferences of the left.