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(8,515 posts)Id let him in.. Too important of a Life and Death issue.. After That? Id throw him out of the den!
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)demmiblue
(36,851 posts)you said in your initial post?
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)that will fucking god damn well never happen
brooklynite
(94,548 posts)During the first GOP debate, moderator Bret Baier said to Donald Trump, "15 years ago, you called yourself a liberal on health care. You were for a single-payer system, a Canadian-style system."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/donald-trump-praises-canadas-socialist-health-care-system-it-works/article/1006583
Precisely because Trump doesn't have any principle except self-promotion, anything is possible.
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)you never know what he is going to do
gordianot
(15,238 posts)That is his "Art of the Deal". It was for me the most difficult book I have ever read next to "Mein Kampf" to stomach.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)That would not be "working with him". It would be not preventing him from doing something that can actually help people.
On rare occasions that could happen - and that would serve the interests of the people whom Democrats are elected to represent. I'm not worried about it happening too often. There will be multiple stark examples of where his agenda and ours collide. And that will bring him down.
If Trump changed his mind on climate change and fought for a carbon tax I would support him on that item. Not to worry, that's not going to happen - or more to the point Trump's failure to fight climate change is something to worry about. That's bigger than any politics, if we could work together there we should.
If Democrats worked with Trump on one item out of twenty it would do nothing to save his presidency. Here is one good example: The national debt ceiling. If he needs Democratic votes to raise it with his full open support, he should get them. The negative consequences of not cooperating on that are too severe.
Here's one rule of thumb though. Democrats should not act bipartisan with Trump unless it is an issue that a strong majority of Congressional Democrats clearly support. What we do have to prevent is a rump of 40 or so conservative leaning Democrats in the House, or 8 of them in the Senate, forming a coalition with Trump to move his agenda forward.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)He would just as easily betray you at first opportunity as long as it benefits him. This is how he is capable of striking a deal with Vladimir Putin, Freedom Caucus, Black Caucus, establishment Republicans, Democrats, anti-pro Wall Street, Obama, Clinton's, Sanders, NATO, etc., one day and abandon them the next day. It is all about Trump the hedonist, Narcisstic worm and what he desires.