Where Trump has been a true innovator is in his willingness to rhetorically combine positions from the isolationist right, the far right, the center right and the center left. If I were running for president, I’d approach politics in the same way: not as a liberal, a conservative, a libertarian or a centrist.
I’d run as an extremist.
The agenda that could actually make America great again would combine the best ideas of the extreme left and the extreme right. This year is probably too soon for such a radical platform, but by 2020 – after more extreme weather, after machines replace more middle-class jobs, after more mass shootings and after much more global disorder – voters will realize that our stale left-right parties can’t produce the needed answers for our postindustrial era.
It’s time for a true nonpartisan extremist, one whose platform combines the following:
-A single-payer universal health care system. If it can work for Canada, Australia and Sweden and provide generally better health outcomes at lower prices, it can work for us, and get U.S. companies out of the health care business.