The
TRUMP CARD
by Jake Highton
A University of Nevada, Reno professor presents a leftist case in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton ILLUSTRATION/JONATHAN BUCK
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he choice for president of the United States is easy for a Man of the Left: Bernie Sanders. Sanders won most of the Democratic primaries but his opponent, Hillary Clinton, reaped the majority of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Her big win in the California primary clinched the nomination. But even before the California vote, Clinton had a lock on the superdelegates, those numerous Establishment figures who cling to the past rather than look to the future. And—she has powerful allies on the rules and platform committees to swing things her way. Sanders, a democratic socialist U.S. senator from Vermont, made a valiant effort but could not wrest the nomination from Clinton, former secretary of state. This is sad because Sanders is a progressive and Clinton a conservative, promising the same-old dreary presidency. The Sanders election platform called for a modern-day revolution, the most progressive since Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s and 1940s. Sanders demanded universal health care, a single-payer plan that would cover everyone, including 28 million Americans without any health coverage. It’s absurd that the richest country in the world doesn’t have national health while smaller and poorer nations do.
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