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Originally Posted by Two Spirit
Worst case scenario: Trump somehow wins two terms and miraculously has a decent presidency, which would spell disaster for any political future for Warren and probably most Democrats, as such a scenario would prove the US was far more right wing than they thought.
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I don't know, but political discourse in the US is pretty right-wing already. Bernie Sanders has been painted as some kind of radical socialist, while Norway had its first social-democratic majority government 71 years ago (the Nowegian Labor Party was notably more radical back then). And instead of using "left" and "right" to describe political alignment, American media uses the words "liberal" or "conservative", even though liberalism and conservatism are both pro-capitalist ideologies. Ideologies that seek to abolish, challenge or even just modify (social democracy) capitalism are hounded and demonized, to prevent the working class from promoting its own interests.