Assuming they don’t care about poor people isn’t helping.

Socially progressive, economically conservative, limiting government power to the bare necessity.

How’s the old strategy been working for you, Democrats?

I honestly used to say “I’m a moderate” and I think that comes from a deep sense of not wanting to offend others.

Eh, as someone who, as I repeatedly note, would be an Eisenhower conservative if I lived in a sane political system, this “fiscally-conservative-but-socially-liberal” claptrap needs to be called out, specifically as claptrap. Often, and loudly.

Close on your translation, but your dialect is a little off. Here’s my translation:

This makes the critical mistake of equating correlation and causation. Democrats don’t lack control of the levers of power because they’re too squishy and centrist, they lack power because the country’s electoral institutions are biased and rigged to keep Republicans in power.

Okay, now that we’ve heard from a republican, anyone else have anything of value to add?

People become Democrats because somewhere deep down they believe in the exact same policies that the leftists “insurgents” of today are now pursuing. But an entire generation was implicitly taught that those ideals were not realistic. And now they are afraid to embrace them wholeheartedly.

I’ve pretty much followed the same path.  I actually voted for both Bushes (Dubya only once), and eventually bought the lie that is Centrism, only to realize somewhere in the middle of President Obama’s first term, that I’m really a hard left liberal who bought into Centrism for precisely the same reasons that Ham…

So you’re ok with gays getting married but you don’t give a shit about poor people. Got it.

Quote for truth. Trump won on personality and empty promises, not on detailed policies and a winning track record.  You could argue that’s how Obama got the ticket instead of Hillary initially. 

Centrism ceased to exist the moment a black man was sworn in as President of the United States.

It’s been a long conservative con. By definition, conservatives try to keep systematic things in place all the while ignoring the classist, racist and oppressive roots of how institutions from top to bottom have been set up throughout this country’s history. You can either choose to chug the Kool Aid that everything…

Actually they did plan to sell the Focus Active here along side the Mustang as the only traditional car silhouettes and nameplates left, prior to the talk of tariffs crushing the car. Development work and money was spent on the North American specification for the car along with the rest of the Focus line with plans…

Conversely, if he said bleach was great, the Best, AMERICAN bleach, half of you would just guzzle it all down and shove it down your childrens throats.

US citizen is probably Russian citizen.

Trump taking the time to consider the ramifications of his economic “ideas” before implementing them is about as likely as your average Trump supporter bothering to actually read an article before leaping ass-first into the comment section.

Except they’re not coming back. They’re still making the cars in China, but selling them in other countries, not the US.