This may be the election that redefines the parties. The Democrats may evolve into the party of the

[pampango]

23. Point by point.

* the Democrat is the candidate using Citizens United to raise Super PAC funds from millionaires and billionaires while the Republican campaigns against a corrupt pay-to-play campaign finance system

We shall see if Trump does not leap at the chance to use the wealth of the republican party and its sponsors in the GE. I know which side my bet is on.

* the Democrat is the candidate encouraging international trade agreements which have the effect of promoting the loss of American union jobs to foreign countries while the Republican campaigns on bringing those union jobs back to America

Trump wants to go back to a unilateral trade policy reminiscent of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, not the multilateral trade policy adopted by FDR. Trump does not want to "bring union jobs back". He wants to make right-to-work nationwide and see unions disappear.

* the Democrat is the candidate who saber rattles about American boots on the ground in foreign conflicts while the Republican campaigns on the theme that the countries in the region should take the lead role and we should limit our in-forum involvement to bombing rather than American boots on the ground

I don't see Trump as anything but a typical republican who bleats about how Democrats have weakened the military and he will make it strong again. If you understand from him that he will be timid about using our military, you have heard a different message than I.

* the Democrat is the candidate is defending the tax policy status quo while proposing minuscule tweaks at the edges of that policy while the Republican is arguing that the billionaires and the large corporations must pay a greater share of taxes

Every analysis I have read shows that his tax cuts will be the usual "trickle-down", cut taxes for the rich (including himself) that we always get from republicans. And this is before he starts cozying up to the republican establishment after he wraps up the nomination and does not need the base anymore.

* the Democrat is the candidate saying "let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater" about Wall Street reforms while the Republican campaigns against corruption in the financial sector

I find it hard to believe that anyone here really expects Donald to "crack down on corruption in the financial sector".

I agree that he will conduct a 'populist' campaign that will be unlike anything we have seen from a republican before. But let's not confuse his RW populism based on fear, hate and us-vs-them rhetoric with real populism, like Bernie's, that does none of those things.

Will Trump be a effective and dangerous campaigner though he would be a horrible president? You better believe he will be. We had better prepare for it.