How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win.

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405. Ummm except no they haven't

The passing along party lines proves nothing about the meat of the bills. The GOPs plan was to say NO to everything he proposed, as you well know.

The Third Way was adopted by the DLC under Clinton and proved wildly successful. Why would they abandon it? Out-Republican the Republicans before they get a chance. Show the corporate classes and the uber wealthy that you could play with them too. You could also reduce corporate loopholes and taxes, you could also ignore their wrongdoing and "move forward".

The response in the GOP was that they couldn't compete with that because the Democrats could this way keep the part of their base, and society in general, that was wooed by their social positions on saving SS, medicare etc.. but add to it fiscal conservatives that were impressed by talk of reducing deficits and pushing for one sided trade deals, getting tough on welfare recipients, and fomenting war for new resources. So the GOP did the only thing they thought they could, and moved even further right themselves...now they, and we are all the way into Trumpland.

Obama's primary rhetoric was indeed to the left of either Clinton, but not his actual actions indicated post election. Just by his appointments alone you should have seen this. His own personally appointed CoS calling liberals "fucking retards".