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TomCADem

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7. All Neoprogressives? Even Susan Sarandon? Here She Explains Why Shes Hopeful About Trump
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 11:01 AM
Jun 2017

I agree that many neoprogressives, and possibly even the Sane Progressive, really are sock puppets for the RW who are just spreading RW propaganda. However, I think that there are some neoprogressives like Susan Sarandon who then believe and embrace this propaganda as legitimate progressive views. For example, here is Susan Sarandon being supportive of the repeal of the ACA on the ground that this would set the stage for single payer. Of course, Republicans would never support single payer, since the purpose of the repeal is to use the money to cut taxes for the rich.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/12/susan-sarandon-explains-why-shes-hopeful-about-trump-video/

On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” former Bernie supporter Susan Sarandon asserted that Trump is doing a “terrible” job, but that she was feeling hopeful about the passage of single-payer healthcare, which she advocates, because of Trump’s promise of change.

“Now, we have a chance to get single-payer [health care] through. There is actually a bill being introduced by Bernie [Sanders]. There’s a lot of other Democrats and Republicans. There are people that are Republicans that voted, they wanted change, they didn’t want the status quo. [Trump] was the only guy that was talking about change.”

Sarandon disapproved of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election and voted for Jill Stein.

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