I was listening to a Trump interview on Morning Joe ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

I was struck by how closely what he was saying tracked with some voices on DU:

Trump on the ACA: It's just a give away to the insurance companies.

Trump on Blacks and Hispanics: I'm going to win with them both because all they want jobs that won't get shipped to China

Trump on Foreign Affairs: All we have to do is be tough with the other guy and tell them what to do. Deal with it.

Trump on everything: I don't have to follow the rules because I know more/better.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I leave too early to catch Morning Joe but . . .

This is a spot on observation.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. Funny ... A couple minutes after I posted that observation ...

As if we needed further evidence that DU is becoming strange space ... a poll hit DU indicating 19% of likely voting Democrats would support Trump in a 3rd Party run (9% very likely).

[leftynyc]

12. I would like to see how

the question is worded. I would HIGHLY support a third party run by Trump. Will just make it easier for the Democratic nominee to win.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Trump on the ACA

It's just a giveaway to the insurance companies, so we need to get rid of the ACA and go back to totally private insurance.

There's some nuance you glossed over.

The 'voices on DU' say it's a giveaway to insurance companies, so we need to get rid private insurance out of it and go single payer.

Likewise, while Trump might say 'jobs that don't get shipped overseas', he doesn't walk the walk, and has said he 'has to outsource' to 'compete' when asked about his various product lines already made abroad.

Foreign affairs: Yup, there's an authoritarian, hawkish contingent on DU. Certainly not the same folks as the ones who think ACA is a giveaway to pharma and insurance, or the people who want domestic jobs, though.

Trump on everything: Sorry? You seem to have accidentally posted a statement from the Clintons after this one.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Yes ... there is a lot of the same sentiment, though for different reasons ...

But why do this?

Trump on everything: Sorry? You seem to have accidentally posted a statement from the Clintons after this one.

Reflexive reaction?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

9. Reflexive reaction?

You're joking, right?

I don't have to follow the rules because I know more/better.

That's been the Clinton mantra for decades. It's the story of their political lives, from kinky sex in the Oval Office to private email servers at State. It's the thing they both do best.

[Armstead]

14. Plus its a slap at anyone who criticizes anything here (including Bernie supporters)

"I don't have to follow the rules because I know more/better. "

A not so thinly veiled swipe at Sanders

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

18. It was thick enough of a veil that I didn't see it as an insult.

Sanders follows the rules, and has won election after election doing so. What he doesn't follow is 'conventional wisdom'.

[Armstead]

22. I was refrring to memes and stereotypes, not reality

[Armstead]

15. Yes a reflexive reaction -- People do act reflexsively when insulted

[pinboy3niner]

4. You may have a point there

[riversedge]

6. And JOE slobbers and gushes over donald. nothing new

[One of the 99]

21. He has become Trump's shower bitch.

And Mika too.

[Gothmog]

7. Trump is an idiot who is playing to a segment of the GOP base

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. And apparently, 19% of the Democratic Party (if he does a 3rd-Party run) n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Uh, no. The number of Democrats who said they would vote for him, 9%. The 19% are people

who say they support his being a candidate. Very different things. In 2008 for example, 10% of Democrats voted for McCain, 9% of Republicans voted for Obama. 2012, 7% of Democrats for Mitt, 6% of Republicans for Obama. 1992, Bush and Clinton each got 10% of the other Party. And so on....

[1StrongBlackMan]

17. Isn't that what I said?

[Bluenorthwest]

20. No you said he's applealing to 19% of our Party, which is not what the polling says, the polling

says about 9% of Democrats would vote for him, which is very similar to the percentage of members of each Party who vote for the other Party in every cycle. In that way, it means very little about Trump in specific because all the candidates of both Parties get similar percentage of cross over votes as is predicted in this poll.

All this polling tells me is that every cycle, a percentage of each Party votes for the other and that range tends to be between 6 and 10% and the range is almost always virtually identical for each of the candidates, off by a point or two at most. It's about the electorate, not the candidates.

[Gothmog]

25. I think that is from a Rassie poll

In 1992, 38% of the Perot vote was from Democrats and 38% was from republicans. I think that the ratios will be very different if Trump runs

[tularetom]

10. You didn't mention the part where Trump said he was in favor of a single payer health care system

Probably because he never said that. Which puts him about 180 degrees in opposition to the ACA critics here on DU.

And "Trump on Foreign Affairs" sounds eerily similar to "Hillary Clinton on Foreign Affairs".

[sunnystarr]

23. He did say it in 2000

"I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one," Trump wrote. "We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by health care expenses. We must not allow citizens with medical problems to go untreated because of financial problems or red tape."

When he turned to how the country might achieve universal coverage, Trump focused like a laser beam on a Canadian-style, single-payer plan. He said it would eliminate many billions of dollars of overhead.

"The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than America," he wrote. "We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing."

Ever the pragmatist, Trump noted change would not happen overnight.

"While we work out details of a new single-payer plan, there are a number of ways to make the health care system now in place work more efficiently," Trump wrote.

So, it’s fair to say that in 2000, Trump supported a Canadian-style health care plan.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jul/24/erick-erickson/conservative-columnist-trump-once-backed-single-pa/

[INdemo]

11. So would you vote for Trump?

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. Hell NO! n/t

[CTyankee]

19. Joe's slant is always something favorable to the Republicans...

he's desperate to find something that isn't just poisonous to the rest of the country. So now Joe is saying Trump's gonna win the presidency for the repukes...at long last, a savior for the GOP...ha...

[Binkie The Clown]

24. The dream ticket: Clinton/Trump

[Stellar]

26. Trump on everything..

"Trump on everything: I don't have to follow the rules because I know more/better. "

I'm rich...I'm really rich!