Greenwald: should Democrats work with Donald Trump's Bold Economic Populism, like his 2016 calls to raise taxes on the rich?
Donald Trump, 2016: Cut upper-class tax rates and end the estate tax!
Donald Trump, 2016: Cut upper-class tax rates and end the estate tax!
Should Democrats work with Josh Hawley's economically populist "branding" even though his actual economic policy views are completely orthodox Paul Ryanism, a view that has rarely been considered in such detail and with such care
I didn't want Joe Biden to be the Dem nominee either, but there is literally no policy or personal dimension on which he isn't more "populist" than Josh Hawley, the Stanford/Yale grad who wants to destroy the welfare and regulatory state and pass more upper-class tax cuts
This is a lot of words to invest in trying and massively failing to justify routine appearances on a show hosted by a white nationalist shitbag
And not only do none of these "economic populists" want M4A in exchange for anything, they all think the ACA should be ruled unconstitutional and replaced with nothing! https://twitter.com/cunninghamp220/status/1276229527648251904
The whole piece is just transparently incoherent gibberish. How can you make a deal with Josh Hawley's "branding" when on actual policy questions he's just fanatically committed to upward wealth distribution as well as social conservatism? https://twitter.com/showmeopie/status/1276225804389752834
Always hilarious remember that Greenwald's specific example of Josh Hawley's imaginary "economic populism" was a symbolic gesture to...immediately give more money to some of the most privileged people in the world