Probably the closest thing you’ll find to a Democratic party duckwalker in this thread is me - I’ve been walking those ducks since carrying signs for LBJ - but if you think @nemomen and the others are in the tank for Clinton you haven’t been paying attention.
Most of the attacks on Clinton this election cycle, including most of those raised by aLynHall, are tired old right-wing talking points. Every time a progressive repeats right-wing talking points, a kitten dies. This election cycle there are dead kittens all over the place.
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One of the things that became obvious in this election is that the hard right is not economically hard right. A better way to say this is that political beliefs in the US do not map nicely to a 1-D axis with “left” on one side and “right” on the other.[/quote]
This has been obvious in previous elections as well. It is why the Republicans are able to do so well with working-class voters by attacking Democrats like Clinton when they propose to increase taxes on the very wealthy. (They still haven’t forgiven her husband for partly rolling back the Reagan tax cuts.)
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On identity politics, Clinton plays plenty of lip service to the left.[/quote]
Good! Much of what our leaders have to do is set an example by what they say, especially when it comes to normalizing progressive values.
This speculation is not supported by either her track record or what she has said and written.
