JimBowie1958
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This guy got knee capped by a vengeful Democrat Party Chicago machine, and for what I dont know.
Maybe they just decided he was too embarrassing, or too quick to fire from the lip.
Well, he is certainly firing away now.
Exclusive ā Rod Blagojevich Explains Why He Is a āTrumpocratā
I smell a future suicide for the ex-gov.
Maybe they just decided he was too embarrassing, or too quick to fire from the lip.
Well, he is certainly firing away now.
Exclusive ā Rod Blagojevich Explains Why He Is a āTrumpocratā
Blagojevich says the great irony of American politics is that Trumpāa Republicanāhas done more to rectify these problems that Democrats created for black and working class Americans than any of Americaās other recent presidents, in large part because Trump has ditched the ātraditionalā GOP playbook to pursue a more solutions-oriented agenda. Upon his release from prison, Blagojevich announced he is a āTrumpocratāāmaking him the highest profile such Democrat who has left the Democratic Party to join President Trumpāand here he explains his views in the most in-depth interview yet since his release.
āWhen I say Iām a Trumpocratāand hopefully a lot of others are as well, and I believe they areāitās largely because the Democratic Party has not only left us but itās abandoned traditional Democratic constituencies like working people, factory workers like my father an immigrant who came to America and spent all of his time here as a working man working in a steel factory,ā Blagojevich said. āAnd also, the Democratic Party has for far too long taken the African American community for granted. Theyāve not only abandoned them, theyāve sold them out when they passed the crime bill in 1994 that President Clinton and Vice President Biden, then-Senator Biden backed and voted for. Our senator here, Sen. Durbin, voted for it. Itās a bill that led to the mass incarceration of a whole new generation of African American men for nonviolent first-time drug offenses, over-sentencing them and then putting them in a position where they can have no opportunity whatsoever to begin a new life after correcting the mistakes that they made and paying their debts to society, frankly, for the crimes that they committed. President Trump, interestingly enough, is speaking to those constituencies in ways that traditional Republicans never did.ā
Blagojevich said that whether itās through his economic policies or his criminal justice reform policies or other norm-challenging fights, Trump has upended the normal political battle lines in a way that is ārevolutionizing American politicsā and āre-aligningā what would be considered ātraditionalā political coalitions by zoning in on and successfully ādrawing fromā what were considered āDemocratic constituency groups.ā
āAnd I think heās not only been successful politically because heās done it, I think heās revolutionizing American politics,ā Blagojevich said. āHeās re-aligning politics in America by drawing from those traditional Democratic constituency groups, the factory worker that used to work in a factory thatās gone because of the 1994 NAFTA bill that President Clinton signed sending all those jobs away. President Trump is bringing them back in places like western Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and southern Illinoisāthe rust belt states. One of the many frustrations I had as governor was when I would leave the Chicagoland area where Iām fromāIām from Chicagoāand Iād visit places like the Quad Cities or Marion, Illinois, or Franklin County, Illinois, where they used to have coal mines and people were working and that was the economic anchor of the community or youād go to a place like Galesburg, Illinois, where the Maytag factory once was but has left because of NAFTA and President Clinton and the policies of the Democratic Party thatās supposed to be the party that protected those people and looked out for their interests. Itās hard to be able to explain to those communities that there was hope, that there was a possibility that we might be able to bring some of those economic engines back to the state. Now, at last, we have a president who not only promised to do it but heās doing it. I think President Trump is making real strides in succeeding in that but more importantly heās actually addressing the needs of the American worker. And with the First Step Act, heās actually done something for a community that overwhelming votes for Democrats like me. We easily get 90 percent or better of the African American vote when we run against Republicans. Yet, the Democratic Party I would say cynically has taken the African American community for granted. Itās almost immoral, their treatment of the African American community by sort of just keeping them dependent and in a certain place where they have to look to government for all the answers when at the same itās actually government through over-sentencing and targeting African Americans that are causing a lot of the problems and conditions in these very communities.ā
āWhen I say Iām a Trumpocratāand hopefully a lot of others are as well, and I believe they areāitās largely because the Democratic Party has not only left us but itās abandoned traditional Democratic constituencies like working people, factory workers like my father an immigrant who came to America and spent all of his time here as a working man working in a steel factory,ā Blagojevich said. āAnd also, the Democratic Party has for far too long taken the African American community for granted. Theyāve not only abandoned them, theyāve sold them out when they passed the crime bill in 1994 that President Clinton and Vice President Biden, then-Senator Biden backed and voted for. Our senator here, Sen. Durbin, voted for it. Itās a bill that led to the mass incarceration of a whole new generation of African American men for nonviolent first-time drug offenses, over-sentencing them and then putting them in a position where they can have no opportunity whatsoever to begin a new life after correcting the mistakes that they made and paying their debts to society, frankly, for the crimes that they committed. President Trump, interestingly enough, is speaking to those constituencies in ways that traditional Republicans never did.ā
Blagojevich said that whether itās through his economic policies or his criminal justice reform policies or other norm-challenging fights, Trump has upended the normal political battle lines in a way that is ārevolutionizing American politicsā and āre-aligningā what would be considered ātraditionalā political coalitions by zoning in on and successfully ādrawing fromā what were considered āDemocratic constituency groups.ā
āAnd I think heās not only been successful politically because heās done it, I think heās revolutionizing American politics,ā Blagojevich said. āHeās re-aligning politics in America by drawing from those traditional Democratic constituency groups, the factory worker that used to work in a factory thatās gone because of the 1994 NAFTA bill that President Clinton signed sending all those jobs away. President Trump is bringing them back in places like western Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and southern Illinoisāthe rust belt states. One of the many frustrations I had as governor was when I would leave the Chicagoland area where Iām fromāIām from Chicagoāand Iād visit places like the Quad Cities or Marion, Illinois, or Franklin County, Illinois, where they used to have coal mines and people were working and that was the economic anchor of the community or youād go to a place like Galesburg, Illinois, where the Maytag factory once was but has left because of NAFTA and President Clinton and the policies of the Democratic Party thatās supposed to be the party that protected those people and looked out for their interests. Itās hard to be able to explain to those communities that there was hope, that there was a possibility that we might be able to bring some of those economic engines back to the state. Now, at last, we have a president who not only promised to do it but heās doing it. I think President Trump is making real strides in succeeding in that but more importantly heās actually addressing the needs of the American worker. And with the First Step Act, heās actually done something for a community that overwhelming votes for Democrats like me. We easily get 90 percent or better of the African American vote when we run against Republicans. Yet, the Democratic Party I would say cynically has taken the African American community for granted. Itās almost immoral, their treatment of the African American community by sort of just keeping them dependent and in a certain place where they have to look to government for all the answers when at the same itās actually government through over-sentencing and targeting African Americans that are causing a lot of the problems and conditions in these very communities.ā
I smell a future suicide for the ex-gov.