How come no one has compared Trump to this guy?
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TheElectoralBoobyPrize
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« on: September 19, 2015, 08:54:06 AM »


The GOP has previously nominated a businessman with no political experience. I'm surprised no one has drawn a comparison...also like Trump, Willkie had been a Democrat prior to the present administration.

Keep in mind I don't think Trump will actually win the nomination, but the precedent is there.

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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2015, 08:57:01 AM »
Quote from: TheElectoralBoobyPrize on September 19, 2015, 08:54:06 AM


The GOP has previously nominated a businessman with no political experience. I'm surprised no one has drawn a comparison...also like Trump, Willkie had been a Democrat prior to the present administration.

Keep in mind I don't think Trump will actually win the nomination, but the precedent is there.



I have seen one comparison.
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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2015, 09:01:54 AM »
Wendell Willkie wasn't an idiot.
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« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2015, 09:13:14 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2015, 09:29:57 AM »
Wendell Willkie, was an individual with substance. He had depth and was not so enraptured with self-promotion and attention getting stunts.
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« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2015, 09:33:13 AM »
I don't think many "normal people" will immediately know who Willkie is.
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« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2015, 10:52:10 AM »

Small minds only see what's in front of them.

I can definitely see this comparison.
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« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2015, 11:53:06 AM »
I could see Willkie as being a more moderate and less eccentric Trump, sure.
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« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2015, 12:14:42 PM »
Why should people destroy Willkie's image?
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« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2015, 12:38:28 PM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/upshot/before-trump-or-fiorina-there-was-wendell-willkie.html?smid=tw-share
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« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2015, 07:46:54 PM »
Wilkie was somewhat supportive of the rival administration and merely wanted mild reductions/ technocratic changes to help make FDR programs less awful. Trump hates the rival administration and has an empty platform of repealing existing programs.
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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2015, 09:01:59 PM »
Willkie was a "me too" Republican.

Trump is a Republican who adheres to some policy positions that are more appealing to Democrats than Republicans.
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« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2015, 09:07:35 PM »
Quote from: Fuzzy Bear on September 19, 2015, 09:01:59 PM
Willkie was a "me too" Republican.

Trump is a Republican who adheres to some policy positions that are more appealing to Democrats than Republicans.

He wasn't really though. Wendell Willkie was a very liberal Republican, basically only offering slight re-tooling of FDR's policies, and even approached FDR with the possibility of forming a liberal party independent of the Republicans and Democrats.
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