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blake
Tellafriend: Trump is going to destroy her
i will certainly lose what non-existent credibility i had, but i truly believe warren crushes trump (as would any dem probably).
the whole demonizing wall street, consumer champion, break up big tech, populist style rhetoric will play well in a national election.
i also assume warren will completely bail on single payer the second she wins the democratic primary. if not, i may have to revisit this prediction.
100% true. Why do you think Trump was able to trounce the establishment GOP candidates in the 2016 Republican presidential nomination race? His overt racism certainly helped with many gullible voters, but ultimately, it was his unrelentingly rebuke of the political establishment’s coddling of the rich and powerful that the rest of GOP candidates — especially Jeb Bush — represented. The only reason Ted Cruz lasted as long as he did is because among the established GOP pols in that race, he had the most support among the religious right. Once Trump swept away the lesser supported candidates, he smartly pivoted to overtly courting the religious right masses, he came to hail him as a modern version of the pagan Persian emperor Cyrus. But without that core populist economic message of how the establishment GOP had neglected ordinary Americans, he never would have had a shot.
And unlike Trump, Elizabeth Warren is a true champion of the American middle class. And she’ll be able to point to Trump’s outrageous dissing of the working American families with his ridiculously lopsided-for-the-rich tax “reform”. If she gets the Dem nod, she is going to absolute shred him in the debates over that. And also how he has both gutted the effectiveness of the Consumer Financial Protection Board and dramatically rolled back Obama’s expansion of the Department of Labor qualifications of overtime-eligible workers.