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Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumTrump's Post-Policy! ~ Rachel Maddow Blog (HRC GP)
A post-policy party finds a post-policy candidateHillary Clintons campaign website features an issues page where visitors can read the Democrats position papers on 31 different issues. Each page features a fairly detailed overview of the candidates approach to the issue some, including the page on climate change, lead to additional resources with even more specific information leaving little doubt as to how Clinton intends to govern if elected.
Donald Trumps campaign website, meanwhile, features a positions page with summaries of the Republican candidates approach to seven issues. Most of the content is vague and boilerplate, and voters hoping to learn detailed information about how Trump would govern will need to look elsewhere
Donald Trumps campaign website, meanwhile, features a positions page with summaries of the Republican candidates approach to seven issues. Most of the content is vague and boilerplate, and voters hoping to learn detailed information about how Trump would govern will need to look elsewhere
As it turns out, this isnt an accident or the result of a bad web team. Rather, its the result of a deliberate decision on the part of the campaign to downplay substantive details ahead of the election. Politico reported yesterday:
A source familiar with Trumps thinking explained that the billionaire businessman was reluctant to add new layers of policy experts now, feeling it would only muddy his populist message that has been hyperfocused on illegal immigration, trade and fighting Islamic extremists.
He doesnt want to waste time on policy and thinks it would make him less effective on the stump, the Trump source said. It wont be until after he is elected but before hes inaugurated that he will figure out exactly what he is going to do and who he is going to try to hire.
Oh. So, Trump will eventually put together a policy agenda, but not until after the election. Voters should support the least-experienced, least-prepared presidential candidate of the modern era first, and then hell let the public know how he intends to govern.
The traditional model is for a candidate to present an agenda before the election voters might want to know what theyre voting for but who needs such antiquated niceties when theres a nativist demagogue who doesnt understand how government works running for the nations highest office?
A source familiar with Trumps thinking explained that the billionaire businessman was reluctant to add new layers of policy experts now, feeling it would only muddy his populist message that has been hyperfocused on illegal immigration, trade and fighting Islamic extremists.
He doesnt want to waste time on policy and thinks it would make him less effective on the stump, the Trump source said. It wont be until after he is elected but before hes inaugurated that he will figure out exactly what he is going to do and who he is going to try to hire.
Oh. So, Trump will eventually put together a policy agenda, but not until after the election. Voters should support the least-experienced, least-prepared presidential candidate of the modern era first, and then hell let the public know how he intends to govern.
The traditional model is for a candidate to present an agenda before the election voters might want to know what theyre voting for but who needs such antiquated niceties when theres a nativist demagogue who doesnt understand how government works running for the nations highest office?
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/post-policy-party-finds-post-policy-candidate
Hillary on the Issues:
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/
Trump's (7) Positions:
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions
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Trump's Post-Policy! ~ Rachel Maddow Blog (HRC GP) (Original Post)
Her Sister
May 2016
OP
Trumps approach to policy sounds like a surprise party thrown by a sadist.
Agnosticsherbet
May 2016
#4
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)1. Trump looking smart and Presidential!
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Cha
(297,503 posts)5. Yeah, he certainly looks the part of the face of the gop
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)2. Gives meaning to the old saying, "buying a pig in a poke"-
And I do mean a "pig" by every measurable standard.
BlueMTexpat
(15,371 posts)3. An insult to the pig ...
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)4. Trumps approach to policy sounds like a surprise party thrown by a sadist.