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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Alex MG who wrote (2959)12/21/2016 3:51:28 PM
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I know you meant in governance, but does that mean people were supposed to ignore his known track record of...

Of course not. I'm not suggesting that we have no information about Trump from which we can extrapolate to inform our votes. But there's no basis for comparing the two on public policy positions taken or performance in office. He has no record under public scrutiny over years, no irritation built up among voters, no opponents criticizing his every move. We have, for example, Clinton's position on the Iraq war. It's on record. For Trump we have several different versions, claimed after the fact, then revised. Who knows what stand he might have taken in office. So we have something vs nothing. A lot of somethings. And we might have disapproved of at least a few of those Clinton somethings. Nothing beats a string of somethings if any of the somethings are negative. Extrapolations are flimsy.
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