‘Trump’s Going to Get Re-elected, Isn’t He?’ By Thomas L. Friedman

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‘Trump’s Going to Get Re-elected, Isn’t He?’

Voters have reason to worry.


By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist

    July 16, 2019

I’m struck at how many people have come up to me recently and said, “Trump’s going to get re-elected, isn’t he?” And in each case, when I drilled down to ask why, I bumped into the Democratic presidential debates in June. I think a lot of Americans were shocked by some of the things they heard there. I was.

I was shocked that so many candidates in the party whose nominee I was planning to support want to get rid of the private health insurance covering some 250 million Americans and have “Medicare for all” instead. I think we should strengthen Obamacare and eventually add a public option.

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It will be an overthrow of all the norms, values, rules and institutions that we cherish, that made us who we are and that have united us in this common project called the United States of America.

It never ceases to amaze how leftists have come to see themselves as champions of traditional Americanism. They sound just like the Hard Hats of 50 years ago that as hairy young radicals they eventually overwhelmed.