Donald Trump

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  • yuekit2

    So it turns out that Trump himself once proposed a wealth tax on the rich of 14.25%. Far beyond what Elizabeth Warren is currently proposing.

    https://twitter.com/ZachStafford…

    In the same interview with a gay magazine, he says he wants to implement universal health care by raising corporate taxes, amend the Civil Rights Act to protect gay people, and criticizes Pat Buchanan for dividing the country by fear mongering over illegal immigrants.

    https://www.advocate.com/electio…

    The guy is as fake as they come...or maybe he started running as an ultra-conservative to pander to the far right in 2016 and then internalized those views. Or just got senile in his old age?

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    • he campaigned for universal healthcare in 2016, and is on the record talking about it over and over again, making promisesmonospaced
    • he had to bend to the conservatives because they were his ONLY ticket to winning an election, even at the cost of his own valuesmonospaced
    • As a marketer, I think he looked at the electorate and realized conservatives were the most gullible/ impressionable demographic that he could use to win.yuekit
    • "I love the poorly educated."
      https://www.youtube.…      monospaced
    • ^ this.
      trump would certainly have been considered a democrat in the old days      Gnash
    • is that mostly because Clinton was in power and relatively 'cool' - he was pushing his tv celeb persona and Democrat was the only real option in that worldFax_Benson
    • he sounds fairly conservative in those old interviews where he's weirdly coherentFax_Benson
    • i was thinking more about the big-ticket items. in the past he's been a supporter of an assault weapons ban, was pro-choice, and for universal healthcareGnash
    • but he was only ever in my radar in the 80s. this is all my anecdotal memoryGnash
    • I suppose he was simply "for" whatever his friends were formonospaced
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