AOC would “stomp” JD Vance in a presidential election…

[Mick]

…or so she says.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: I would ‘stomp’ JD Vance in a presidential election

On a personal level, I would like to see that election in the same why that I would like to see a car wreck…you really, really don’t want it to happen, it would be horrible for all involved, but you just can’t take your eyes off of it.

[Genuine Realist]

I’m a little surprised at this. I’m quite an admirer of Vance, whose career is already extraordinary.

 

I’m much less conversant with a day-to-day politics and most of the posters on this board, but my instinct is that the Democrats are in hopeless shape on almost every substantive issue that matters to the American public, chained to various extremist groups. Their only asset is the personality of Trump, which is why Biden took such extraordinary measures to keep his candidacy alive – and no, I am not being facetious with that last statement.

 

There is no substance to AOC. She can hardly answer any substantive question coherently. J D Vance, on the other hand, seems to me to be able to advance the Populist agenda that has been in play since 2016, with considerably more finesse and personal charm than Trump could ever muster. His marriage is another asset. I would not ever vote for Trump because of his obvious personality defects. But I would vote for Vance. I think there are great many voters like me.

 

You can also stop cocktail party conversation with the arresting insight that, should Vance become president, he will come from the most disadvantaged background of anyone since. . . Abraham Lincoln

 

Trump is not now, and never has been, a threat to the Republic. He is a threat to a system of ordered values that are so dear to the heart of a coterie academic and intellectual elites that they confuse it with the Republic itself. The resemblance to Andrew Jackson almost exactly 200 years ago is uncanny, down to the personality disorder. (Trump is not nearly so cruel, a good thing.)

 

Finally, while I am holding forth, please stop confusing any of the wealth surcharges now being proposed ith a comprehensive substitution of a wealth base for income that I advanced for many years, until it became apparent that it was an idea too good for the real world. They have nothing in common.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

[Mick]

(Trump is not now, and never has been, a threat to the Republic. He is a threat to a system of ordered values that are so dear to the heart of a coterie academic and intellectual elites that they confuse it with the Republic itself. The resemblance to Andrew Jackson almost exactly 200 years ago is uncanny, down to the personality disorder.

Might be the best paragraph I’ve read on this board. Because that’s the nature of the Left. They’ve won so much and so often that they equate their system of ordered values with that of the Republic. And Trump is a genuine threat to their ordered values.

As for the wealth tax proposals that have been advanced…no, none of them bear resemblance to your wealth tax proposal, GR, and I’m not certain that they ever will…not even Mitt Romney, who proposed an estate tax on estates over $100 million at death:

Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me – The New York Times

Odd to me how so many Democrats protect the wealthy. Like Adams opposing the NYC rent freeze. Maybe I should be for it given that my son is renting in southern Manhattan:

New York Mayor Adams moves to block Zohran Mamdani’s 2026 rent freeze

[Beeg_Dawg]

Less Jackson’s status as a war hero, there are many similarities between Trump and Jackson.  The most significant is their appeal to the common man and resistance from political elitists.

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