Is Bernie's Trade Policy More Extreme Then Trump's? Yes.

[TomCADem]

23. I Apologize. Let me give an example. Health Care

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Bernie Sanders supports single payer, Medicare for all. Do you see what I did? I described a specific policy proposal. I did not need to have a bunch of links. I did not even have to use a buzzword such as "progressive."

Now, watch this:

Donald Trump does not support single payer, Medicare for all. I could even expand and say that Donald Trump appears to support a return to the health care system we had before the ACA, which Trump is doing his best to dismantle. Once again, I did not have to include links or throw in buzzwords like "corporatist" or "globalist." Likewise, I did not even have to say Trump is a racist to make my point that Trump does not support single payer.

Now, do you do this? Here is what you write:

Second of all: Trump is xenophobic. But his policies are not the same as Bernie's: to use small words, Bernie would not go it alone. He would work with friendly countries, known as allies, to confront unfair trade. How is that "progressive" It is progressive because it is not trying to build walls around America. It is trying to work with countries also being screwed by China (and the corporations who do business there) to stop the race to the bottom.

Well, that's nice. That is a lot of aspirational fluff, but what does that actually translate to? Or, is Bernie's trade agenda so obscure that even his own supporters can't really can't describe specific policy proposals? Using the example of health care, can you describe a policy in your own words a Bernie trade program and compare it to Trump's? Instead, you duck the issue and talk about the environment.

Let's try this. Do you Bernie would lower or increase the tariffs that Trump imposed on China? How's that? Can you answer this?