Omar, Tlaib, and AOC are good for Fox News ratings because they look like scary foreigners! But Fox News's opinion-show hosts greatly overstate the influence of people like Omar, Tlaib, and AOC.
Hannity, Limbaugh, Carlson, Ingraham, Levin, etc. are the real leaders of the Republican Party these days. This is where Trump-supporting rubes get all their news.
Ug. You need to stop watching Fox News and watch the hearings and read the call transcript. Read the Mueller report as well.
How much of the Mueller report have you read? Have you read the call transcript/summary of Trump/Zelenskyy? How much of the hearings have you watched?
What are you talking about now? Your previous comment dealt with policy. You said. "So it's your position that the Democrat presidential primary candidates are making sound public policy proposals? Even though, more often than not, their math simply doesn't add up? Interesting." So what are you talking about when you say you cited 2 instances where Democrats have publicly made statements which support this conclusion?
Are you referring to what Democrats like Al Green said?
So, this may come as a shock to you, both Republicans and Democrats do not believe in unrestricted, laissez-faire capitalism. Even since Colonial times, Americans have relied on significant government intervention in the economy. We've never had a purely Capitalist economy. The Republican Party itself was established on the policy of significant government involvement in the economy in the form of infrastructure creation. The Republican Party, since Lincoln's era, believed in using government funds to build roads, bridges, dams, and so on, with the purpose of benefiting manufacturing companies and business in general.
A good example of modern-day Republican hypocrisy on this issue is the billions of dollars in handouts that American farmers have received. Apparently, brown people in urban areas should not be given food stamps, but it's okay to give white people in rural areas billions of dollars? How does that make any sense from the perspective of a coherent and logical political philosophy? The truth is Republicans also believe in having the government interfere in the economy, they just want the "right" people to benefit from such government interference, not the "wrong" people.
Fox News opinion-show hosts frequently deride Democrats as being "socialist." And when they do they are piggy-backing off of a century-long U.S. propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union (and I am not disparaging this particular propaganda campaign, I think it was good to fight against the Communists and Soviet sympathizers using propaganda like this). However, there are very few members of the Democratic party, probably close to zero, that believe in socialism if we are defining it similar to the way Marxism or Leninism is defined. The people that truly believe in Marxism or Leninism end up being kicked out of political gatherings, or they run off and start their own groups.
Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, not a Socialist (i.e. not a Marxist or Leninist).
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
I do not perceive Democratic Socialists to be a threat to the Republic. I don't agree with their policies, but they believe in working within the system the Founding Fathers created.
Do you know who doesn't believe in working within the system the Founding Fathers created? Trump supporters. Trump and his supporters have routinely demonstrated a willingness to violate the Constitution and the Rule of Law to get what they want.
Editorial: Trump cuts poverty food stipends just before Christmas - Los Angeles Times
