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Are Trump's politics actually reactionary, or not? I am not sure I have a good sense of what his actual policies would be. Saying things that he's said about
by douche 11y ago
Are Trump's politics actually reactionary, or not? I am not sure I have a good sense of what his actual policies would be. Saying things that he's said about immigration might appear reactionary, but I'm not sure it's not as much a play to Peoria, where the lower and middle class whites that still make up the majority of the electorate are feeling the pain of globalization and the erosion of their traditional economy.
As a big business New Yorker, I suspect he'd be a lot more of a centralist on many issues than anyone else in the race right now, possibly on either side of the aisle.
- maratd 11y agoHe's not a centrist, liberal, or conservative. He's a populist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Are Trump's politics actually reactionary, or not? His politics are actually reactionary, yes. > I am not sure I have a good sense of what his actual policies would be. Whether his actual policies would be reactionary is a different question from whether his actual politics are reactionary. > Saying things that he's said about immigration might appear reactionary, but I'm not sure it's not as much a play to Peoria, where the lower and middle class whites that still make up the majority of the electorate are feeling the pain of globalization and the erosion of their traditional economy. Sure, its populist; that doesn't stop it from also being reactionary. (Sanders, likewise, is populist, but rather the opposite of reactionary.)