Would Margaret Thatcher have been a Democrat if she was an American politician?
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« on: February 18, 2014, 12:39:22 PM »

Of course. Actually she'd be a liberal Democrat who'd be attacking the party leadership for not doing enough to oppose Reagan. Since after all the Democrats are far to the right of the Tories. [/sage]
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« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2014, 02:02:37 PM »

Reagan supported gun control and signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Thatcher could have been a Republican despite having a few liberal ideas.
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« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2014, 02:06:42 PM »

Haven't you sufficiently discussed this issue?
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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2014, 02:12:04 PM »

You made your point (that ~95% of the forum always agreed with anyway) some time ago.
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« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2014, 02:16:41 PM »

I don't see the "Ha ha ha, no" option.
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« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2014, 03:40:07 PM »

Absolutely not. She would be attacked as a RINO for her stances on social issues, but she was a hard-line privatizer and attacked "socialism" like it was her job, just like modern GOPers.
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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2014, 05:51:00 PM »

No. She'd be a Republican. She also would never have gotten a presidential nomination. (But if we had a parliamentary system, she probably would have been able to win the Republican Party leadership, being chosen by the House Republican caucus. She'd have gotten the "regular conservative" Midwesterners and the Northeastern Republicans who don't like unions but also admired her for being pro-choice and not socially conservative. And she'd have gotten some support among Buchanan/Perot/paleo-conservatives assuming her Euroskepticism translated into dislike for NAFTA as an American politician.)

The Grassroots Right would have hated her for...
- being pro-choice (she voted to legalize abortion in the UK)
- more or less ignoring social issues apart from arguing that capitalism was "morally" right
- being lukewarm toward Israel (she harshly criticized their 1981 bombing of a nuclear reactor in Iraq and did nothing to strengthen her country's ties to Israel)
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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2014, 06:48:57 PM »

Straight from the horse's mouth: "No. No. No."
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« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2014, 01:01:01 AM »

F**k no. Next.
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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2014, 07:32:26 PM »

Thatcher was to the right of Reagan.
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« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2014, 06:25:55 AM »

She would've been a Western Republican.
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« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2014, 05:53:28 PM »

No, she'd be a Communist in America [/retard]
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« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2014, 06:08:26 PM »

Thatcher wasn't really 'socially liberal' though. Yes she did vote to legalise abortion (a bill, which, I believe, was actually pretty restrictive), but I don't really see how she can be seen as one. 'Social issues' simply weren't very important politically during the 1980's, so it's not surprising that she devoted little attention to them. Although, it should be remembered that her government was responsible for passing Section 28 (over-hyped as the furore surrounding that legislation was).
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« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2014, 07:55:14 PM »

To quote the late, great Baroness Thatcher:

NO, NO, NO!
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« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2014, 06:30:00 PM »

Well, she did wage a war on coal.

(a bill, which, I believe, was actually pretty restrictive),

To the standards of American liberals, yes; to the standards of American conservatives, no. It was intended as a practical compromise, of course.

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By calling it 'over-hyped' you're showing quite a few things, including your (v. young) age. It wasn't just a problem because it was virulently homophobic, but because it was so sh!ttily written that it was never entirely clear in what circumstances it did or didn't apply.
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« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2014, 08:32:30 PM »

She would've been a Western Republican.

I would think about her being a more anti-union Jon Huntsman!
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« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2014, 08:34:23 PM »

She would have been a Blue Dem Dog or a Moderate Western Republican!
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« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2014, 08:35:33 PM »

She was basically a female Chris Christie.
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« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2014, 08:43:42 PM »

She was basically a female Chris Christie.

What?

She would have a conservative Republican in the 60s/70s, would have been a happy participant in the Reagan revolution (although she would have been much much tougher on the Unions than Reagan was) ... it's not because she's a moderate on social issues, but because she would be MORE moderate than the core of the party.

If someone of her positions was running now, she'd be considered a moderate Republican, which shows the state of the GOP.
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« Reply #19 on: April 03, 2014, 08:22:56 PM »

Interesting idea for a timeline, if you could butterfly her birth to the USA somehow....
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« Reply #20 on: April 03, 2014, 08:27:00 PM »

Interesting idea for a timeline, if you could butterfly her birth to the USA somehow....

I once did a list of alternate presidents that involved a bunch of foreign-born leaders in the U.S. titled "A Nation of Immigrants". Josef Stalin (D-NY) was deposed after four years by a GOP ticket with "Dolf Hitler (R-OH)" as the Vice Presidential nominee. Churchill and the internationalists, however, wrested the nomination from that wing in 1940. Other notables were Eamon DeValera (D-MA), Brezhnev (D-PA), Kissinger (R-NY), and Brzezinski. Thatcher was Reagan's VP and served in HW's term. Dubya was elected after the Blair era in 2004 with Putin (R-AK) as his VP.
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« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2017, 12:15:34 PM »

No, of course not. I don't get these liberals that think that every conservative outside of America would be a Democrat in the US. If anything Margaret Thatcher was similar to Ronald Reagan. I think the only Conservative Party leader up til now (2017) who would have probably been a Democrat in the US would have been David Cameron.
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« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2017, 07:30:04 PM »

Good God no.
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