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Originally Posted by whell
And you think there's such a thing as a moderate Democrat among party leadership? You don't think the Dem's agenda has moved increasingly left?
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Biden is the quintessential moderate, though he has indeed been pulled to the left by the progressive wing of the party. As a moderate, this leftward pull doesn't reflect my personal ideology, but at least Democrats still believe in democracy and strongly oppose the Right's embrace of fascism.
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"Trumpism" is just the latest in a long history of boogeymen contrived by the left. Trump was pretty far from being among the best US Presidents, and most certainly had flaws. However, he's also pretty far from the demon that the never-Trumpers, Dems, and their media lapdogs have made him out to be.
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I guess I could have been a bit more clear. Trumpism is actually a homegrown, domestic form of fascism - fascism with a large side order of crazy. IMO, Trump is worse than the media has made him out to be. The media's tendency to "both sides" issues, events and people in an effort to appear "fair and balanced" has given Trump a thin veneer of normality for those like you needing assurance that their Dear Leader isn't a malignant narcissist, pathological liar, amoral wannabe authoritarian and a very real threat to American democracy.