Why it makes perfect sense

[Tom Joad]

For me, a former Bernie Sanders supporter, to support Trump.

This author gets it.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/...brilliant.html

I, a Bernie Sanders voter, voted for Trump against Hillary, for the reasons that I have earlier stated, describing the consequences that a Trump win would have. (See: “I’m a Bernie Sanders Voter: Here’s Why I’ll Vote Trump”.) I summed up, on that occasion:

Trump is rapidly moving America’s political center in the opposite direction from the direction that Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, did, which was toward conservatism, away from progressivism: those conservative Democratic Presidents and (now) would-be President, have moved America’s political center considerably toward the right (the international-corporate agenda). A President Trump would reverse the political direction that this country has been heading in ever since 1993.

If we progressives don’t help Trump to do that, we shall be throwing away the only such opportunity that the U.S. oligarchy (slipped-up and) allowed us to have. A President Hillary Clinton would have the support of almost all congressional Democrats no matter how right-wing her proposals are, and her big-money financial backers will buy enough congressional Republicans to make her the most effective most conservative Democratic President in decades if not centuries. The prospect is chilling.

The biggest objection I hear to that from my fellow progressives is: “But think of the people he’ll appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court!” And my answer to that is: “This Is No ‘Cold War’; It’s Far Worse Than That.” Hillary Clinton has been intensely committed to completing Barack Obama’s drive toward nuclear war against Russia, and even the question of the Supreme Court is trivial in comparison to that. Furthermore, as I argued in “I’m a Bernie Sanders Voter: Here’s Why I’ll Vote Trump”, Trump might actually turn out to be a far more progressive President than he is expected to be. But, even if that turns out not to be the case, Trump is thoroughly committed to halting America’s aggression against Russia: the biggest loser in this Presidential election is George Herbert Walker Bush, the person who in 1990 secretly established the U.S. plan to conquer Russia, which plan every U.S. President since has been carrying out, and Hillary Clinton was expecting to complete that operation.

This was thus a historic U.S. election: finally, the U.S. government will turn away from the path toward war against Russia, upon which path the United States has been leading the world ever since 1990. I am shocked, and enormously relieved, at the result — even if Trump turns out to be a bad (i.e., a conservative, the opposite of a progressive) President on all other matters (including the Supreme Court).

Even in the worst-case scenario, Trump will be a much better President than would the neoconservative, Hillary Clinton.

[Rajoo]

".......secretly established the U.S. plan to conquer Russia........"?
That's a new one on me. I thought Reagan ended the cold war and the Iron Curtain came down.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

".......secretly established the U.S. plan to conquer Russia........"?
That's a new one on me. I thought Reagan ended the cold war and the Iron Curtain came down.

That was the CCCP, this is Russia and we need to start following Washington's advice.

[finnbow]

The mistaken premise of that article is that Trump has an agenda and an ideology other than ego gratification.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The mistaken premise of that article is that Trump has an agenda and an ideology other than ego gratification.

A very wise man once said:

Originally Posted by donquixote99

One doesn't preclude the other.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The mistaken premise of that article is that Trump has an agenda and an ideology other than ego gratification.

I don't see that premise and what modern President wasn't about ego gratification?