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"Besides from a European perspective even someone like Obama or even more obviously Hillary (based on the amount of war mongering she has done alone) is center
by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Besides from a European perspective even someone like Obama or even more obviously Hillary (based on the amount of war mongering she has done alone) is center or ultra right."
All things are relative. Given that description of Obama or Clinton, what would you classify those who ran as Republicans in the last election?
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoBy some measures, Clinton campaigned (slightly) to the right of Trump in the run-up to the general election: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016 https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016 For the primaries, using similar measures at least, the Republicans all more or less clumped together to the right of Clinton.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoThat article makes claims that are just not true. "Trump supported a decent minimum wage from the start, wants free education in state universities, has supported universal health care, consistently opposed the Transpacific Partnership Agreement and wants more bank regulation." He very clearly is not in favor of free education, he is very clearly not in favor of raising the minimum wage, he very clearly is not in favor of universal health care, and very clearly is not in favor of more bank regulation. So I find the claims that Clinton was more to the right of Trump quite dubious.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoI think Trump has taken almost every conceivable position on every issue, so the claims in the article were presumably true for some particular moment of time.