09-26-2016, 02:48 PM
We strongly agree with the following:
Let the debates be about substance and policy, there are huge differences. Trump poses as a champion of the forgotten masses against a self-dealing elite. This is funny, as he's very much part of that self-dealing elite, and his policy agenda isn't likely to do anything for those forgotten masses.
Quite the contrary, it's a traditional blanket deregulation, tax cut for the wealthy trickle-down Voodoo economics stuff that has been tried and failed. Add to that the likelyhood of protectionist policies that is even less likely to revive the economic fortunes of those masses, and the enormous budget gap that his policies will leave, and it should not be difficult to point out the deficiencies.
Clinton's own policies offer a mixed bag of stuff that has been tested in other countries and while it is very much incremental, as a package it could make a considerable difference.
Quote:Monday’s debate should be to lay out her own motivations and policy goals. In recent months, both of these things have been overshadowed, partly by the scandal surrounding her e-mails and partly by Trump’s big simplistic slogans: build a wall, keep out Muslims, get tough on China, and so on. As it happens, Clinton’s agenda, as my colleague Adam Davidson also wrote the other day, does have a unifying theme. It’s the same one that Democrats have been running on for twenty-five years, a period in which they have won the popular vote in five out of six Presidential elections, and it involves using the power of the government to tilt the economy in favor of working people. Trump, although he talks like a populist, has largely adopted the regressive economic policies of the Republican establishment.The Presidential Debate Is Clinton’s Chance to Outfox Trump - The New Yorker
Let the debates be about substance and policy, there are huge differences. Trump poses as a champion of the forgotten masses against a self-dealing elite. This is funny, as he's very much part of that self-dealing elite, and his policy agenda isn't likely to do anything for those forgotten masses.
Quite the contrary, it's a traditional blanket deregulation, tax cut for the wealthy trickle-down Voodoo economics stuff that has been tried and failed. Add to that the likelyhood of protectionist policies that is even less likely to revive the economic fortunes of those masses, and the enormous budget gap that his policies will leave, and it should not be difficult to point out the deficiencies.
Clinton's own policies offer a mixed bag of stuff that has been tested in other countries and while it is very much incremental, as a package it could make a considerable difference.