Comments on: Advice to the American Left http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/ taking the most charitable view of those who disagree Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:33:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 By: Andrew' http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470869 Sun, 05 Feb 2017 21:16:49 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470869 Exactly.

]]> By: Massimo Heitor http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470851 Sat, 04 Feb 2017 04:33:35 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470851 Andrew, why would you hope that asdf is right?

Even with complete demographic replacement, that doesn’t threaten the two party system. The two political parties will continue to find issues that large fractions of the electorate care about, and if they don’t they will simply be replaced by another political party that will do so. That includes internal replacement, as the Republican party was just basically internally overthrown.

]]> By: Andrew' http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470850 Sat, 04 Feb 2017 03:33:00 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470850 I hope you are right!

]]> By: collin http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470834 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:56:22 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470834 Well, Trump did run as a deal-maker and this is his opportunity to prove it. And Trump also won on some fairly Left positions with no changes to Medicare and Social Security. In terms of free trade, he ran like Richard Gerhardt from the 1980s! I remember he claimed to have a much better healthcare system with lower cost and better coverage so this is his opportunity to promote that. Finally, Trump ran as the dovish candidate against hawkish HRC. In reality, I believed if Trump quieted down and promoted some right center policies, his approvals would go to 60%. However, he remains completely interested in his base.

Given I got tired of Obama’s propensity to lecture, I am not surprised conservatives went a little crazy on it.

]]> By: asdf http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470831 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:24:39 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470831 The essence of the Democrats is identity politics. Their long run goal is to become a one party state through demographic replacement. Trumps measures threaten that ultimate goal.

It’s not about taxes. It’s not about social policy. It’s not about laws and legislation. It’s all about power. Power comes from votes. Minorities represent cheap, compliant, plentiful votes.

Democrats have their eye on the ultimate prize. They can sacrifice anything and everything else, so long as one day Texas turns blue.

]]> By: Andrew' http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470827 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 11:33:13 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470827 Has Trump even said anything bad about democrats? I read he may have said the party is a shambles bit that is just an observation.

He was a democrat until recently.

His objectives are centrist.

Republicans don’t like him.

He is compelled to get things done and says he likes to negotiate.

Therefore, I think he is primed to work with Democrats on common cause. But if your framing keeps being that everything he wants is what you don’t that will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

]]> By: Andrew' http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470823 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:27:33 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470823 1. Stop saying it is un-AmeRican to vet refugees that have lots of reasons to hate America.
2. Keep saying we can’t have a border and that will get you a wall.
3. Stop saying diversity is our strength therefore we have to have the majority of immigrants be illegald from Mexico, Central, and South America.
4. Stop assuming everyone agrees that foreign policy should be just a branch of welfare.
5. Start saying nice things about anything good Trump does.
6. Make a list of agreeable actionables and meet with Trump on them.

]]> By: Andrew' http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470822 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:04:28 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470822 I think you maybe don’t remember Chavez under Bush.

I can’t speak for your circle but the lefter media is apoplectic that Trump is going to do stuff like take away Hobby Lobby’s employees’ free birth control. They aren’t just sad about losing, and a difference of opinion, they can’t even believe reasonable people could disagree. Their Overton window needs an adjustment.

]]> By: Andrew' http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470821 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:48:03 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470821 I’d say so. I had to stop listening to Obama. Other people don’t seem to hear it, but he was our first Troll-in-chief.

But to give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe there is zero common ground between Democrats and Republicans. If that is so, then why would they ever work together? It is just trolling and power plays from here on out.

]]> By: Taimyoboi http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/advice-to-the-american-left/#comment-470816 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:53:29 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=8255#comment-470816 When we limit ourselves to “our circle,” it’s rather easy to dodge a reasonable question as to whether the American left writ large has been handling the outcome of this election rather poorly compared to last ones. One might ask, as the author and Arnold did, whether the over reaction begets precisely the kind of election outcome we did.

But hey, at least it wasn’t your circle’s fault.

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