Ralph Nader: Trump’s Done Some Good, Clinton’s Winning By ‘Dictatorship'

[YoungDemCA]

...in an interview with U.S. News, Nader expressed more positive thoughts about Trump's candidacy than Clinton's.

The liberal activist says Trump has brought some important issues to the fore.

"He's questioned the trade agreements. He's done some challenging of Wall Street – I don't know how authentic that is. He said he's against the carried interest racket, for hedge funds. He's funded himself and therefore attacked special interest money, which is very important," Nader says. "But he's lowered the level of political debate to unheard-of depths of salacious, slanderous and vacuousness, garnished with massive self-boosterism and repetition."

"And that's not good, because that brought a lot of money into the media and that's the kind of debates they're going to want to goad."

When asked what positive contributions Clinton has made to the 2016 campaign, Nader called her a "corporatist, militarist Democrat" who would have been defeated by Sanders if every state held an open primary.

"She's going to win by dictatorship. Twenty-five percent of superdelegates are cronies, mostly. They weren't elected. They were there in order to stop somebody like Bernie Sanders, who would win by the vote," he says.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-13/ralph-nader-donald-trump-has-done-some-good-hillary-clintons-winning-by-dictatorship

Mr. Nadir should really drop the pretense of giving a shit about Democrats getting elected.

[WhiteTara]

1. Nadir has never pretended he wanted a democrat to win any election

he is delighted to see the world crashing down...he told his supporters that "they deserve it"

[speaktruthtopower]

2. Nader tells it like it is.

[YoungDemCA]

4. This is a website that supports Democrats.

Why waster your time here? I'm legitimately curious - and it's not you I'm talking about.

[JaneyVee]

3. This fucking guy.

[blm]

5. He's NOT funding himself - he loaned the money and is getting paid back from donors wealthier than

he, like Shel Adelson.

[OilemFirchen]

6. Fuck Ralph Paul. (n/t)

[msongs]

7. dear ralph and bernie, we have an open primary in NOvember when everyone can vote for sanders/nader

[Bill USA]

8. LOL! Nader has hit a new nadir.

[CobaltBlue]

9. Ralph Nader is consistently correct. Those who hate him are making a statement about themselves.

[mcar]

10. FFS!

And people who purport to be progressive actually defend this mook?

[baldguy]

11. Fuck Ralph Nader.

[PDittie]

12. What Nader does better than anyone else on the left

is troll the fuck out of establishment Democrats.

[AZ Progressive]

14. As much as I dread Trump...

Trump's been speaking out against the trade deals and since he has more coverage than Bernie, has been getting the word out a lot more than Bernie.

And the trade deals matter to me because I don't want big corporations to have sovereignty over American governments. Anyone who is loyal to this country would reject these trade deals. I also want to trust the air I breathe and the food I eat. Not everyone has the money to buy stuff at Whole Foods (or your local Co-op.)

[anigbrowl]

16. Oh, Trump is going to defend American government from big business

Whatever you're smoking is a lot stronger than what I've got.

[AZ Progressive]

19. I don't want those trade deals to pass

I don't trust him either, but at least word has gotten out about those damn trade deals, which the corporate media was doing an effort to hide.

[joshcryer]

20. I await to see Trumps views on VAT for real estate.

He's all for tariffs because they wouldn't affect his bottom line.

The fact of the matter is American consumers want cheap goods, which Trump's tariffs would obliterate. He wouldn't have the votes to do it if he got elected, for that reason alone. And I expect him to back off that rhetoric once the studies come out showing the American consumer just how bad it'd be for them.

[barrow-wight]

21. Lovely.

So we should trust the man who has products made in third world countries as a result of these trade deals?

[NobodyHere]

15. She's winning by dictatorship?

I thought she was winning by millions of votes

[oasis]

17. Ralph Nader can kiss my ass. Sarandon can go to hell. nt

[joshcryer]

18. Fuck Ralph Nader.

[Justice]

22. Ralph Nadar knowingly gave us George W Bush and Dick Cheney

[RBInMaine]

23. Nader is a conspiracy theorist looney tune who can go piss up a rope.

[DonJohnson]

24. Oh, yes...

Distrusting the structural elite, not bowing to authority, and avoiding borderline-"homicidal" urges against humanity, not catering to the 0.001% makes you a "looney tune"? Well, I'll gladly accept that label if it differentiates me from sadistic misanthropic sociopaths who openly express sheer hatred towards humanity and worship of the corporate/political elite... you know, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev types?