2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you honestly think that there's no difference between Trump and Hillary? Seriously? [View all]Kall
(615 posts)For instance, Trump has long called the TPP the lobbyist-written job-sucking trade agreement that it is, and vowed to tear it up. Hillary sold it as the "gold standard" for years, then a few weeks before the Democratic primary said she was against it, while the US Chamber of Commerce says she's just saying that for now, and will revert to being for it later, and she takes no offense at this. So that's curious, and makes one wonder Which Hillary is for and Which Hillary is against.
There are differences the other way too. Mostly in that Hillary is not pandering to intolerance. But the truth is that the Clinton campaign is delighted that Trump is setting the bar so low for you (don't pander to intolerance) that they feel all they have to do is set the bar one inch higher, and they can count on you to ignore what she says on health care (Bernie Sanders' plan for universal Medicare would dismantle Medicare), trade, Iraq, Libya and future foreign invasions as the country keeps right on marching to the right, and that you won't look at her positions and record. It keeps people from thinking about things like the fact that the Republican front-runner has the position on trade that the Democratic Party should have (and at least paid lip service to in the past - watching Hillary and Obama fight over who would renegotiate NAFTA the hardest in 2008 was quite the belly laugh... as to what happened next, well, we all know).
They both lie shamelessly, unless you think Hillary was sleep-deprived for the weeks she told tales of being under Bosnian sniper fire until the video came out. So there are things they have in common.