Centrist Democrats: We can work with President Trump !!!

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POLITICO

Centrist Democrats: We can work with President Trump
Getting ready for Trump wins in their home states may just be good politics for moderate senators.
By Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim
05/16/16

As Democrats portray Donald Trump as a dangerous leader for his party, most of them barely acknowledge he could be president. But some centrist Democrats say they’re ready and willing to work with the business mogul should he defeat their party’s nominee.

“The people will have a chance to vote. If Donald Trump is elected president there will be a great opportunity to sit down and have a conversation about what that agenda looks like,” explained Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who has long backed Hillary Clinton. “If he’s president, we’re going to have disagreement. But we’d better all figure out how to come up with an agenda for the American people.”

Take Tester, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, whose job description calls for retaking the Senate by relentlessly linking incumbent Republicans to Trump in purple and blue states this year. But should Trump shock the pundits and win, Tester acknowledges that there are “for sure” things he can come together with Trump on, “as long as they’re good deals for America.”



"If Donald Trump is elected president there will be a great opportunity to sit down and have a conversation about what that agenda looks like,” says Sen. Heidi Heitkamp

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[Protalker]

1. Any person backed by white supremist is no centrist

In God's name why be a Democrat?

[RKP5637]

2. Stockholm Syndrome! n/t

[underpants]

3. Good grief!

[ViseGrip]

4. Look, he's to the left of Hillary on some serious issues, that affect millions!

She reached out to the BUSH republicans, and dissed her base, first act. Those republicans will come together as they always do, and vote en mass like soldiers, unlike unenthusiastic democrats! So what does she do? She pissed off more of them, and tries to get Bush donors?

Now do you get why 'centrist dems' are okay with Trump? Going after Bush donors, leaves her to the right of even them!

[WhiteTara]

12. He's not to the left of anything

he says one thing one day and contradicts the next. He and Paul Ryan are together in wanting to kill social security and medicare. So I'm not sure how that can be left. Of course he says he doesn't want trade agreements, but we'll see what he says next week. Also, building a wall between the US and Mexico is not left either.

[alc]

5. It's too early to be saying it

unless their re-election depends on it. Hopefully we won't hear more of it until after November in the unlikely case Trump wins.

But I'd hope the Ds in congress would work with a president Trump. Coordination and compromise can get some D issues moved forward and also possibly restrain Trump's excesses. Being the "party of no" leaves them out of the discussions. At the very least find out where Trump really stands on issues. There may be places to do significant work together (e.g. I think Trump's with the Ds on social security and reducing taxes on the poor)

[yeoman6987]

6. Trump might be good with jobs (we need Bernie to get the nomination)

He's already backing away from the Muslim ban. He knows he can't get a wall unless he personally pays for it and he won't. The biggest worry about trump in the general is that dumb vote for Iraq Hillary did. Trump will hit hard on that like he did bush in the primary.

[MisterP]

7. will the Clinton hammer come down on these moderates, or are they "protected"?

[imagine2015]

9. The hammer will only come down on liberals who support Bernie Sanders or his agenda

[Oneironaut]

8. Suuure

Wasn't the whole "compromise" thing pushed against the Neo-Cons and TeaPubs in 2010 as well? That worked really well...

[pampango]

10. "Trump is driving away some Republicans with his departures from party orthodoxy, including calls

for a higher minimum wage, more infrastructure spending and health care coverage, but Democrats would have a hard time resisting similar calls from a President Trump if he came to Capitol Hill with those priorities. Blockading such a Trump agenda wouldn’t be easy after Democrats have relentlessly attacked Republicans for refusing to improve Obamacare, craft a big deal on roads and bridges, and provide a higher wage for the working class.

Still, centrist Democrats sound strong notes of skepticism about a President Trump's relationship with Congress: They think he’s got a bad habit of rewriting his policy platform on the fly from one day to the next. In the words of Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Trump’s policy portfolio seems “very schizophrenic.”
“I don’t know if he’d send one piece of legislation over in the morning, and then send the exact opposite legislation that afternoon,” McCaskill said. “You go down every single issue, he is all over the place. So I have no idea. I don’t think he knows. It’s clear to me he’s kind of making this up as he goes along.”

Still, centrist Democrats sound strong notes of skepticism about a President Trump's relationship with Congress: They think he’s got a bad habit of rewriting his policy platform on the fly from one day to the next. In the words of Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Trump’s policy portfolio seems “very schizophrenic.”

“I don’t know if he’d send one piece of legislation over in the morning, and then send the exact opposite legislation that afternoon,” McCaskill said. “You go down every single issue, he is all over the place. So I have no idea. I don’t think he knows. It’s clear to me he’s kind of making this up as he goes along.”

[arcane1]

11. Clinton's top donors would be perfectly fine with a President Trump n/t

[imagine2015]

14. Probably

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. And, they wonder why "politics-as-usual" is scorned and people sit out elections.