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John McCain, Pat Buchanan, Donald Trump
Jul. 30th, 2016 11:00 am
Currently near Marmora: 21.7.
Imagine, if you will, that there is a prominent Republican who is critical of NAFTA, the TPP, and other trade deals, calls for dramatically scaling back American military intervention around the world, appears not to have a religious bone in his body, is at least not hostile and may be actually friendly toward non-straight people, and has a history of support for universal health care and higher taxes. Imagine even that his daughter said he's going to fight for equal pay for work of equal value and affordable childcare. I think you'd have to expect this person to be a pet Republican of things like, were such a thing to exist, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, wouldn't you? (Setting aside whether you're rightfully annoyed by things like the Daily Show with Jon Stewart having pet Republicans.)
Imagine, if you will, that there is a prominent Republican who is critical of NAFTA, the TPP, and other trade deals, calls for dramatically scaling back American military intervention around the world, appears not to have a religious bone in his body, is at least not hostile and may be actually friendly toward non-straight people, and has a history of support for universal health care and higher taxes. Imagine even that his daughter said he's going to fight for equal pay for work of equal value and affordable childcare. I think you'd have to expect this person to be a pet Republican of things like, were such a thing to exist, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, wouldn't you? (Setting aside whether you're rightfully annoyed by things like the Daily Show with Jon Stewart having pet Republicans.)
