Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!eu1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=`RXfo3P`CFh9f6`g5fNY:hU5[F2hIijDo7J470dMQQ7kIW^IYg9S>^h <672cd48a$1$2385539$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <672d39aa$0$15$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Content-Language: en-US From: bitrex In-Reply-To: <672d39aa$0$15$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Message-ID: <672d3d23$0$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1731018019 reader.netnews.com 17 127.0.0.1:60895 Bytes: 2016 On 11/7/2024 5:05 PM, bitrex wrote: > On 11/7/2024 10:19 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote: >> In article <672cd48a$1$2385539$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>, >> user@example.net says... >>> >>> Trump's main message is not "small government" it's a chicken in every >>> pot and trading freedom for security. This used to be the Dem's main >>> selling point... >>> >>> >> >> It seems the parties are reversing the ideas. > > > Appropriating some left-wing populist ideas and making them meaner has > been a right-wing thing for a while. > > But though Trump tries to be everything to everyone, at least he has a > brand, a coherent message of a sort. > > Lately the Dems have just been a rather generic centrist party whose > message such as it is, is that we'll be business-as-usual, keep the cash > and money cash & bombs, rather