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Where Does Donald Trump Stand on the Political Spectrum?
Topic Started: Mar 19 2016, 04:11 AM (2,234 Views)
ImaHeadaU
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Where Does Donald Trump Stand on the Political Spectrum?

Is he a Free Trader? Is he a Conservative? Is he a Republican?

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Ideologically, Trump is not a typical conservative. The standard conservative orthodoxy is one that holds the free flow of labor and capital across international lines as a near-universal positive. Trump, at least in his most recent incarnation, is not a free-trader in any sense of the word. He advocates protectionism at home and has openly called for actions that would almost certainly incite trade wars with key U.S. trading partners like China and Mexico.

As a result, the profile of the average Trump supporter is very different than the backers of other 2016 GOP candidates. When Wagner ran the numbers on the supporter bases of five current and former Republican presidential hopefuls—Trump, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich—he noticed an interesting divide when he plotted their position on the ideological spectrum against how frequently they voted in prior elections.
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Rubio, Carson, and Cruz are all clustered in the lower right-hand corner of the chart, meaning they were all chasing (and, therefore, splitting) the same group of voters: extremely engaged political conservatives. Kasich nabbed the frequent voters in the party who are more moderate, a group that's gradually withering away as the party polarizes.“Trump is representing a different class of people than everybody else,” said Wagner. “If you look at the results so far, he's doing much better in open primaries than in caucuses.”

Wagner's argument is that, while the real-estate heir and reality-TV star's support from hard-right white supremacists and neo-Nazis is thoroughly documented, Trump's rise is largely a result of activating the so-called “silent majority,” Americans who would paint themselves as relatively moderate—if they paid any attention to politics at all, besides weighing in with apathy and disgust. Trump's message targets a base of potential Republican voters that other campaigns typically ignore for the simple reason that they don't usually vote.
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Brewster
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I don't think Drumph stands on the Political Spectrum. Or on anything else for that matter...

He spends his time hopping back and forth, going from from one lie to another, contradicting himself as he does.
Edited by Brewster, Mar 19 2016, 06:20 AM.
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Neither of you can vote for him anyway.
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Banandangees
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French Canadians are racial minorities. Not a "Yogi-ism, but a Brewism fact. :smile:
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ImaHeadaU
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Mar 19 2016, 06:52 AM
Neither of you can vote for him anyway.
Wrong!
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Berton
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"is not a free-trader in any sense of the word."

Left wing propaganda.

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Berton
Mar 19 2016, 07:51 AM
"is not a free-trader in any sense of the word."

Left wing propaganda.

He's a protectionist. Have you not listened to what he says?
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He has admitted to paying off polititions, those with political power to get what he wants. Wouldn't that make him a globalist? He knows that 9/11 was a false flag and yet only brought it up 15 years later when it serves his purpose
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Banandangees
Mar 19 2016, 06:58 AM
French Canadians are racial minorities. Not a "Yogi-ism, but a Brewism fact. :smile:
For someone who keeps himself so informed of all the minor problems in Canada, (Only so you can equate them to the major ones in the US.) you'd think you'd try to understand the central fact of political life in our country.

In any case, I didn't say I consider them a racial minority, I said THEY do. And that IS a fact.

On Edit: Officially they are listed as an "Ethnic Minority". The fact that you identify minorities by the colour of their skin is irrelevant in Canada, and probably says a lot about the situation in the US..
Edited by Brewster, Mar 19 2016, 09:36 PM.
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Why, Brew, do you keep claiming
to know more about Canada than Berton?
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