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Dems have swarmed completely out of the political mainstream
By David Harsanyi
August 2, 2019 | 10:12pm | Updated
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Once you strip away all the hysteria surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency, you’re left with a policy agenda of a populist, big-government Republican. Whether or not you have a moral or personal case against Trump himself, the president’s stated policy positions fall well within the contours of traditional right-left politics. Can the same be said of Democrats?
I’m sorry, but across-the-board tax cuts, notwithstanding the panic-stricken reaction we saw, aren’t particularly radical. Every Republican president going back to Warren Harding has passed some kind of rate reduction.
Nor is Trump’s stated position on constrained foreign entanglement, which is popular with large factions of both parties. Trump’s pro-Israel posture is a longstanding GOP position. And before President Barack Obama, it enjoyed bipartisan consensus.
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At its center, the Green New Deal calls for elimination of all fossil-fuel energy production in 20 years, all nuclear power and 99% of cars. It would gut and retrofit every building in America and offer every citizen a government-guaranteed “family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations and a pension,” “safe, affordable, adequate housing” and “economic security” for all who are “unable or unwilling” to work.
If that’s not crazy socialism, what is?
Democrats are sure to walk back some of this primary bait. But judging from the primary debates, Trump will be the voice of policy moderation.
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist.
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